Shot dead?

[BabyTigger99]

I don't get this statement. Saw it in a new article on a website. Can't they just said "shot and died". Do you think it is the opposite of "shot alive"???

 

[Alice's Mom]

well you can be shot and live to tell the tale, 50 Cent has made himself quite a career out of it...

 

[BabyTigger99]

Well, I know you can get shot and live, but they don't say you are shot alive. Why say shot dead? It just baffles me!!!

 

[ladycollector]

Because it has more of a 'sting' when you say it. They want to make the story dramatic.

 

[Bob Slydell]

I've also heard "shot and killed", but there's an obvious difference between shot and shot dead, so I don't understand why it's such a poor phrase?

 

[snoopy]

I've also heard "shot and killed", but there's an obvious difference between shot and shot dead, so I don't understand why it's such a poor phrase?

Hmmmm, I'm not getting it either. You are either shot, or shot dead.

What am I missing?

 

[laurie31]

It's a phrase like "went missing."

The more you think about it, the less sense it makes.

Laurie

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Or like with airplanes--a near miss. Either you hit or you miss--what's this about a near miss? Maybe you could have a near hit.

 

[tar heel]

I think "shot dead" is a perfectly appropriate phrase. It conveys an immediacy that "shot and died" does not IMO.

 

[Rock'n Robin]

I just had a kid write in a paper that Ophelia "drowned herself and died". I told him he was being a little redundant.
Robin M.

 

[Towncrier]

And how many of us have a "drying machine" next to our "washing machine"?

I guess that the opposite of "shot dead" is wounded.