over my dead body
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"Gas won't go out of Kurdistan the way the oil has, with that level of mismanagement and lack of transparency - over my dead body," Talabani said.
From Reuters ● Jun. 13, 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 added.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2021
“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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