Wiktionary
death warmed up
phr. Used to describe a person who appears pale or sickly.
Usage examples of "death warmed up".
He'd shaved and climbed into a fresh uniform, but he still felt like death warmed up and allowed to congeal.
She looked like death warmed up and allowed to congeal, but somehow she was still maintaining her psionic shield, protecting the rebels as they fled from the burning inn.
In the morning, starting awake from some instantly forgotten nightmare, Harry had a splitting headache and felt like death warmed up.
It was only when I appeared in my outdoor clothes, looking like death warmed up, that it dawned on him that something must have happened.
Cardinal Barberini had looked like death warmed up when Ruy had brought him in earlier.