
What Does “be dead to the world” mean?
Definition:
to be sleeping.
Example(s)
I think she has woken up. She was dead to the world ten minutes ago.
This idiom is in the nature category.
  
to be sleeping.
I think she has woken up. She was dead to the world ten minutes ago.
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