a fate worse than death

/ɐ fˈeɪt wˈɜːs ðɐn dˈɛθ/

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something that is really terrible to experience

Examples

1. Look, public embarrassment is a fate worse than death, than death, okay!

2. Those arguments a fate worse than death and he did it voluntarily mission after mission.

3. I mean, obviously, in Italy, to run for a train is a fate worse than death.

4. Willem Dafoe, he's gonna shoot it, feels horrible, but he's saving it a fate worse than death would be that it would be captured and experimented on, and he just wants it to rest in peace.