over my dead body
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"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 has previously said "it will be over my dead body that I'll have to get a shot".
From BBC • Jan. 24, 2022
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
The man said to Pa, “Sir, I swored wasn’t no one gunn take us back ’less it be over my dead body.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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