kiss of death

Noun

Meaning

something that is ruinous

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If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death. Julia Ormond

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it. Conway Twitty

I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death. Leon Redbone

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character. Thomas Jane

The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death. Anderson Cooper

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all. Brian Lumley

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