"yes to death" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-yes to death.ogg Forms: yesses to death [present, singular, third-person], yessing to death [participle, present], yessed to death [participle, past], yessed to death [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|++*}} yes to death (third-person singular simple present yesses to death, present participle yessing to death, simple past and past participle yessed to death)
  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To agree with someone, often sarcastically. Tags: idiomatic, transitive
    Sense id: en-yes_to_death-en-verb-Rgvba6C3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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    },
    {
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yessed to death",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
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    },
    {
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        {
          "text": "I was yessed to death.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, Louis Prima, “Yes! We Have No Bananas”, in Beepin' & Boppin:",
          "text": "There's a fruit-man on our street whose name is Mr. Pete\nAnd he keeps good things to eat but you should hear him speak\nWhen you ask him anything he never answers no\nHe just yesses you to death and then he takes your dough",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "To agree with someone, often sarcastically."
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        "(idiomatic, transitive) To agree with someone, often sarcastically."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
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        "present",
        "singular",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yessing to death",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yessed to death",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "yessed to death",
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        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
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        "Pages with entries"
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          "ref": "1949, Louis Prima, “Yes! We Have No Bananas”, in Beepin' & Boppin:",
          "text": "There's a fruit-man on our street whose name is Mr. Pete\nAnd he keeps good things to eat but you should hear him speak\nWhen you ask him anything he never answers no\nHe just yesses you to death and then he takes your dough",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To agree with someone, often sarcastically."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic, transitive) To agree with someone, often sarcastically."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
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