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Ash_S Wrote:死んでろ=死んでいろ=「死んでいる」の命令形=Be dead!
"Play dead!" in this context it looks like.

なるようになってしまえ=Let what happens happen (I don't care).
Thanks alot! Seems like I'm not too get at guessing context.

sparky14 Wrote:なるようになる=物事は,とやかく言ったり,あれこれ心配しても関係なく,必然の成り行きのままになるものだ (basically means "that something will happen naturally/what will happen will happen/nature will take its course") not too sure about the てしまう, but I think it adds further inevitability to what will happen... as in, nature will take its course (unintentionally, so basically, no matter what).
Thanks for the Japanese explanation! REally helps. Btw, Which monolingual dictionary did you get the definition from?
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