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!

12 мая 2016 г., 0:27

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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.

12 мая 2016 г.

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).

12 мая 2016 г.

It's also a movie title

12 мая 2016 г.

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.

12 мая 2016 г.

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