Wake the dead informal verb phrase
Used to indicate that it is so loud as to wake the dead.
They sang too loudly to wake the dead last night.
I can't put up with mischievous children anymore. They make noise to wake the dead.
When Jane saw a cockroach on the table, she was screaming to wake the dead.
A hysterical event that is very noisy.
To celebrate noisily and excitingly; to generate excitement in a group of people
The verb "wake" should be conjugated according to its tense.
If someone cuts a sorry figure, he or she creates an unfavourable impression to others or causes others to regard him or her unfavourably.
Lisa cut a sorry figure at the job interview