over my dead body

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]

Example Sentences

That breeds an inner feeling of 'over my dead body, this will not happen again, we're going to make sure we win this'.

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“Over my dead body,” my mother replied, and brought him home and enrolled him in infant physical therapy and later, in special education classes at schools separate from the public school I attended—the only option he had back then.

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“Over my dead body,” Fox exclaims.

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Gen. William Barr said “over my dead body,” according to his memoir.

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“I categorically opposed making Patel deputy FBI director. I told Mark Meadows it would happen ‘over my dead body,'” he wrote.

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