What does "the quick and the dead" mean? Hello, I found the expression "the quick and the dead" without a context and I can´t find its meaning. It seems to me that it is some kind of saying. Can you

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What does "the quick and the dead" mean? Hello, I found the expression "the quick and the dead" without a context and I can´t find its meaning. It seems to me that it is some kind of saying. Can you please explain it for me and show an appropriate context of use? Thank you very much!

2016년 5월 12일 오전 12:27

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Was a saying in the old west during a gun fight. Means be quick or be dead. 1st guy that drew his gun was the winner the other guy was dead.

2016년 5월 12일

Originally and in religion, it means the living and the dead. In movies and such, it means either fast (like pulling a gun) or dead (because the other guy was faster).

2016년 5월 12일

It's also a movie title

2016년 5월 12일

The quick and the dead means "the living and the dead". It appears in the Christian Apostles' Creed: "He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead." It also appears in Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Bible.

2016년 5월 12일

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