on/under pain of death/st

pod hrozbou, pod trestem čeho/smrti

She said, under pain of death, I was to leave you, for I interfered with her son and his lover.(BNC)

They had been told to leave their homes by noon on pain of death.(CIDI)

If you are told to do something on/under pain of death, you will be killed if you do not do it.(CALD)

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