Citations:kill it with fire
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English citations of kill it with fire
Phrase: "(Internet slang) used to express fear, disgust, or a strong objection to something"[edit]
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- 2005, Anna Clare, Make You a Man, Black Lace (2005), →ISBN, page 14:
- 'Look at this! IS GAY THE NEW STRAIGHT? Jesus – she's like a one woman crap factory. Kill it! Kill it with fire!'
- 2011, John Jurgensen, "Trying to Get 'Tintin' Right", The Wall Street Journal, 15 July 2011:
- When the first substantial preview of "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn" hit the Web this week, one Twitter critic called it "creepy in a 'kill it with fire' kind of way."
- 2012, Rebecca Coleman, Heaven Should Fall, MIRA (2012), →ISBN, page 170:
- “I'm an idiot. When my leg starts to hurt I always pile on the Tylenol, you know— like, 'kill it with fire,' and it takes the edge off in no time.
- 2013, Seanan McGuire, Midnight Blue-Light Special, DAW (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- This turns out to pay surprisingly poorly, since most people don't believe cryptids exist, and those who do believe in them usually fall into one of two camps—either “kill it with fire” or “I wonder how I can use that freak of nature to make myself buckets and buckets of money.”
- 2013, Joris Peels, "AMF is no longer only for bowling", TCT Magazine, July 2013, page 15:
- But we need to give STL [file format] a headshot. We should kill it. Kill it with fire. Whatever switching costs you may have they will pay for themselves in money saved in storage.
- 2014, Kate Wattchow, "Facebook Activism: To Like or Not to Like", Lot's Wife (Monash University), page 27:
- Logical enough that the internet community has not yet turned upon these pages screams of "KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!" (The hunting cry of the angry internet user. Note the palpable rage expressed through excessive capitalization.)
- 2015, Ryan Syrek, "Chap-hazard", Boulder Weekly, 12 May 2015, page 52:
- Die Antwoord, a South African rave-rap group composed of rappers Ninja and Yolandi Vi$$er, are what some would call an "acquired taste" and others "Oh God, no! What is that? Kill it with fire."
- 2016, "Tried 'N' Tested: SiliconeDD", American Car, June 2016, page 88:
- Ask anyone who works in a bodyshop for their opinion of products that contain silicone and they'll probably tell you to kill it with fire […]
- 2017, Kendall Mac, Life review, Santa Fe Reporter, 29 March 2017 - 4 April 2017, page 39:
- […] the effects are outstanding and the sound cues will surely have you on the edge of your seat screaming, "Kill it with Fire!"
- 2019, Terry Prouty, "The Nest Best Thing", Brag, 6 March 2019, page 54:
- If one buzzes by your barbecue, it's often met with screams of “Kill it with fire!” or toxic clouds of pesticide.
- 2019, Anghus, "Mess Mish-Mash", Encore (Wilmington, NC), 11 December 2019 - 18 December 2019, page 23:
- Every time his scary mug showed up on screen, I screamed “Kill it with fire!”
- 2020, Patrick Ullmer, "The Stack-Up: 'The Hunter'", The Spectrum (North Dakota State University), 16 January 2020, page 7:
- For me, the victor is the film adaption, which is a masterpiece of one man's conversion. As for the book? Kill it with fire.
- 2020, "WTF Is Samsung Neon?", Stuff, March 2020, page 23:
- Whether you find it exciting or sinister, there's something very 'uncanny valley' here, where the uncomfortably familiar becomes sinister, eerie and slightly repulsive – and so we reserve the right to kill it with fire.