Mar 29, 2021 · Waking up is a return to consciousness and, if you died in your sleep, you would return to consciousness, albeit the consciousness of the afterlife. You would wake up dead.

Jul 8, 2018 · @tchrist I know that—but it still feels odd, in the same way that Cascabel’s example of ‘wake up dead’ feels odd. Even in this more abstract sense of turn up, there is still an element …

Oct 7, 2017 · However, there is no "marrier". It's not hard to make the conversion from wake to waker. Most English verbs have a noun counterpart. Think jog/jogger, sleep/sleeper, and …

Nov 9, 2015 · While I know what it means, it doesn't make much sense. How can a dog lie while sleeping? Quite curious where this came from.

Nov 3, 2017 · I would call this a wake, which is the get-together held after a funeral. Different cultures have different customs: in the UK it can actually be difficult to arrange a funeral, with …

Are they synonymous, or not? Looking at wake up as a phrasal verb it seems that the more correct way is "I will wake up Joe" rather than "I will wake Joe up", but the second rolls better ...

Your first question seems like a list question, which isn't a good fit for the Q&A format. What specifically about the "lie down with dogs..." idiom doesn't match what you want to express? …

1 For the transitive case, "wake" works as well as "wake up", as in "go wake your father; it's time for dinner".

Sep 4, 2014 · What is the meaning of this sentence: To be healthy as long as you're on the top side of the grass I specifically mean the phrase on the top side of the grass.

So with wake up: Tomorrow, I’ll wake up early. Tomorrow, she’ll wake me up before she leaves. Yesterday, I woke up early. She woke me before the sun came up. I’ve woken up early for a year …