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It's killing me

Date: Aug 17 2000

Quote

1. Quote - Listen to the quote and guess what the slang means.

“You know it’s going to be an interesting character
in his (Stanley Kubrik, movie director) movie, but it was
killing me
, the mystery.”

Definition

1. Definition - Study the definition.

It’s making me very anxious, it’s driving me crazy.

2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.

It’s killing me is best used to describe your feelings
when you really want to know something, but you can’t
get the answer, or if you need something, but you can’t
get it.

Examples

1. Examples - Hear some example sentences.

“The situation with my girlfriend is killing me. I asked her to marry me three days ago, but she won’t give me an answer.”

“marry me three days ago, but she won’t give me an answer.”

Winners

1. Winners - See who guessed the slang definition correctly.

“It means that something which is not revealed yet or unknown makes someone dying to want to know. If someone says, ‘it’s killing me,’ it gets that person really curious and even obsessed to figure it out.”
by Ji-Hee (Missouri, USA)
“It means something is haunting someone.That person wants to know about that so badly. However, he doesn’t have a clue and it makes him insane.”
by Angel (Tuen Mun, Hong Kong)
“I guess it means, he was very curious about it.”
by Alessandro (Guaratinguetá/SP, Brazil)
“In my opinion, the expression ‘it’s killing me’ means ‘driving me crazy.’ That is, there is something out of my control or of my knowledgement, which is making me suffer. In Portuguese we have even an expression ‘The curiosity kills’ whose meaning is the same as in the expression, ‘it’s killing me.’”
by Lazaro (Lorena/SP, Brazil) ”’Killing me’ means something that makes you really anxious. I mean, when you want to know something eagerly, curiosity starts to ‘killing you.’” By Flavio (Lorena, Brazil)
”’It’s killing me’ means it doesn’t do any good for me or it is harmful for me. People use it to emphasise their emotional condition, which means ‘it makes me nervous’ or ‘it drives me crazy.’”
by Taras (Montreal, Canada)
“I think ‘it’s killing me’ means I don’t know what’s going to happen in the future so it makes me excited.”
by Jessica (Keumchon, Seoul, Korea)

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