- kill someone with kindness
- kill someone with kindnessFig. to be enormously kind to someone. •
You are just killing me with kindness. Why?
•Don't kill them with kindness.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
kill someone with kindness
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kill someone with kindness — kill (someone) with kindness : to treat (someone) in a way that is too kind or helpful and that actually causes harm • • • Main Entry: ↑kill kill (someone) with kindness see ↑kill, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
kill someone with kindness — kill (someone) with kindness to be too kind to someone. Rob s killing me with kindness he phones me all the time to see if I m alright when really I just need to be left alone … New idioms dictionary
kill someone with kindness — spoil someone with overindulgence. → kill … English new terms dictionary
kill with kindness — kill with (or by) kindness spoil with overindulgence * * * kill (someone) with kindness : to treat (someone) in a way that is too kind or helpful and that actually causes harm • • • Main Entry: ↑kill kill (someone) with kindness see ↑kill … Useful english dictionary
kill with kindness — kill (someone) with kindness to be too kind to someone. Rob s killing me with kindness he phones me all the time to see if I m alright when really I just need to be left alone … New idioms dictionary
kill with kindness — If you kill someone with kindness, you are very kind, possibly excessively kind, to them … The small dictionary of idiomes
kill with kindness — When you are excessive in your efforts to be helpful or generous, you can harm someone, or kill them with kindness. The children are overweight, but their grandmother continues to give them chocolates and cookies she ll kill them with… … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
kill with kindness — ► kill with kindness spoil (someone) with overindulgence. Main Entry: ↑kill … English terms dictionary
kill — 1 /kIl/ verb 1 MAKE SB/STH DIE (I, T) to make a living thing die: His parents were killed in a plane crash. | What s the best way to kill weeds? | Drug abuse can kill. | kill yourself: You re going to kill yourself on that motorcycle. | The jury… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
kill — verb 1》 cause the death of. ↘put an end to. ↘stop (a computing process). 2》 informal overwhelm with an emotion: the suspense is killing me. ↘cause pain or anguish to. ↘(kill oneself) overexert oneself. 3》 pass (time) while waiting … English new terms dictionary
kill — kill1 W1S1 [kıl] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(make somebody/something die)¦ 2 kill yourself 3¦(make something stop/fail)¦ 4¦(be angry with somebody)¦ 5¦(annoyed/sad)¦ 6 would/could kill for something 7 my head/back etc is killing me 8 kill time/an hour etc 9… … Dictionary of contemporary English
