over my dead body

Idioms  

1. In no way, under no circumstances, as in Over my dead body will you drop out of high school. This hyperbolic expression is often used jokingly. [Early 1800s]

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over my dead body

"It's not over my dead body because that would just be letting them win. I'm not going to be another statistic."

From Salon ● May 2, 2023

She‘s urged people not to get vaccinated, telling an audience in Arizona last month that “it will be over my dead body that I’ll have to get a shot.”

From Washington Times ● Jan. 24, 2022

“It will be over my dead body that I’ll have to get a shot,” she proclaimed.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2021

Now-retired Justice David Souter told Congress in 1996 that "the day you see a camera come in our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body."

From Reuters ● Oct. 23, 2014

“Here, Camp, take this. I hate it. But, Loma, over my dead body you’ll get the piano!”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns