extremely ill

extremely ill
   under sentence of death
   The coded public language of the rulers of Communist China:
    ... if a high official is said to have a cold he's likely to be fired, if he's 'convalescing' he has been exiled and if he is 'extremely ill' he is about to be murdered. (Theroux, 1988)

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