yes to death

verb

To agree with someone, often sarcastically.

“I was yessed to death.”

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

verbyes to death (third-person singular simple present yeses to death or yesses to death, present participle yessing to death, simple past and past participle yessed to death)

present singular third person yeses to death · present singular third person yesses to death · participle present yessing to death · participle past yessed to death · past yessed to death

  1. idiomatictransitiveTo agree with someone, often sarcastically.

    I was yessed to death.

    1 more example

    There's a fruit-man on our street whose name is Mr. Pete And he keeps good things to eat but you should hear him speak When you ask him anything he never answers no He just yesses you to death and then he takes your dough

    1949, Louis Prima, “Yes! We Have No Bananas”, in Beepin' & Boppin
Cite this entry
APA

yes to death. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yes%20to%20death

MLA

“yes to death.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yes%20to%20death. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “yes to death,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yes%20to%20death.

Source: yes to death on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.