Meanings
- colloquialVery keen on or good at (something).
She's death on the fashion, Mercy is. Why, that last gown of hers, cut out a piece of calico a neighbor brought from the East—you'd ought to see it.
1901, Evelyn Raymond, The Sun Maid: A Story of Fort Dearborn1 more example
She's a Canadian half-breed, and she has a sweet tooth and a bitter tongue. The only joys that lighten her dusty pilgrimage through this vale of tears are eating candy and giving cheek to her superior officer. She's death on candy, […]
1913, Robert Blatchford, Tommy Atkins of the Ramchunders, page 106
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