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If you say something will happen over your dead body, you mean that you will do everything you can to prevent it: "Joe says he's going to buy a motorbike ." "Over my dead body !" SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Preventing and impeding.
Nov 15, 2011 · Over My Dead Body Lyrics: How I'm feeling, it doesn't matter / 'Cause you know I'm okay / Instead, I ask myself, "Why do you worry?" / When you know, you know I'm the same / I know, I know...
You use over my dead body to say that you will do everything you can to prevent something happening. They will destroy Penbrook Farm only over my dead body. Arnold Schwarzenegger's wife told him he would go into politics `over her dead body'.
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]
Jun 15, 2024 · over my dead body said to mean that you dislike a plan or action that has been suggested, and will do everything you can to prevent it They will get Penbrook Farm only over my dead body.
Over my dead body. Meaning. Said when you absolutely refuse to allow something to happen. Examples. He bullied me at school and now you want to promote him. Over my dead body!
Whosoever gets you must walk over my dead body!” This hyperbolic adverbial phrase is used as a defiant phrase showing the strength of one’s resistance to something. What it means is that someone is ready to do whatever they can to stop something from happening.
