mortal enemy

Noun

Meaning

an enemy who wants to kill you

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Examples

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy. Early Wynn

One grasps incomparably more things in boredom than by labor, effort being the mortal enemy of meditation. Emil Cioran

I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy. Janeane Garofalo

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

You have lent and not recovered; and if recovered, not so much; and if so much, not such; and if such, a mortal enemy. Portuguese Proverb

Luck is the friend of jackasses and the crazy; it's a mortal enemy of the virtuous. Sicilian Proverb

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