do or die

Speech parts

1. do or die - Adjective

2. do or die - Phrase

3. do or die - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

desperately determined

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

do-or-die

Synonyms

chancy desperate existential go for broke all-or-nothing

Antonyms

unresolved weak-kneed

Examples

To-morrow let us do or die. Thomas Campbell

If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die. Steve Lacy

Let's meet and either do or die. John Fletcher

Oooh, Superfly You're gonna make your fortune by and by. But if you lose, don't ask no questions why. The only game you know is Do or Die. Ah-ha-ha. Curtis Mayfield

Here is no choice but either do or die. William Wallace

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die. Curtis Sliwa

Words in the phrase

do or die

Close letter words and terms

do one's utmost do oneself a mischief do oneself in do out do out of do over