over my dead body

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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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How to use over my dead body in a sentence

And not just sick in the body but in your mind, because you start obsessing.
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The cartoonist, better known as Charb, was shot dead Wednesday.
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They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping.
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And now, similarly, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee: "Bend over and take it like a prisoner!"
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In other words, the free speech exhibited by the folks at Charlie Hebdo was not virtuous—until there was a body count.
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It is most peculiar, and when he plays that way, the most bewitching little expression comes over his face.
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The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.
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All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
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A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
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After we had passed over this desert, we found several garisons to defend the caravans from the violence of the Tartars.
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