Wiktionary
n. 1 (context idiomatic English) death; or a place or period where death is impending. 2 (context idiomatic English) A place of great danger. 3 (context idiomatic business English) The phase of a startup business beginning with the entrepreneur's fulltime commitment to it and ending when the business has achieved sustainable cash flow.
Wikipedia
Valley of Death refers to any of the numerous landforms named Death Valley. Its origins possibly lie in a literary element of Psalm 23 in the Bible. Valley of Death may refer to:
- Valley of Death (Bydgoszcz), the site of a 1939 Nazi mass murder and mass grave site in northern Poland
- Valley of Death (Crimea), the site of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the 1854 Battle of Balaclava
- Valley of Death (Gettysburg), the 1863 Gettysburg Battlefield landform of Plum Run
Valley of Death in Fordon, Bydgoszcz, northern Poland, is a site of Nazi German mass murder committed at the beginning of World War II; and a mass grave of 1,200 – 1,400 Poles and Jews murdered in October and November 1939 by the local German Selbstschutz and the Gestapo. The murders were a part of Intelligenzaktion in Pomerania, a Nazi action aimed at the elimination of the Polish intelligentsia in Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia, which included the former Pomeranian Voivodeship (" Polish Corridor"). It was part of a larger genocidal action that took place in all German occupied Poland, code-named Operation Tannenberg.
Usage examples of "valley of death".
A paltry few hundreds of the half million that had entered the valley of death.
Then we hit the valley of death, with wet ash and more ash, with the smell of wet fire and death.
It had occurred to me, too, that the whole business was but a plan to frighten us back into the valley of death from which we had escaped, that we might be quickly disposed of by the savage creatures there.
The quiet of the tomb lay upon the mysterious valley of death, crouching deep in its warm nest within the sunken area at the south pole of the dying planet.