Expressions: I feel like death
Language is interesting to me. It’s winter time and hearing someone cough up a lung is not an unusual occurance. The interesting thing about being sick is that people often use very descriptive expressions to describe their current state of sickness.
One expression that I have never understood is “I feel like death”. It just doesn’t make sense and for that matter kind of annoys me. First of all no one has experienced death, so they have no reference point for the description and I certainly can’t relate because I’ve never died before. Secondly does death feel like anything? I mean, if you’re dead that’s it right?
