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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]



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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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Trump wanted to install Patel as either the Director of the CIA or the FBI, the latter of which was met with Attorney General Bill Bar declaring that Trump would have to do it "over my dead body."

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