- over one's dead body
- phrasal
only by overcoming one's utter and determined resistance <vows that they'll raise his taxes over his dead body>
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over one's dead body
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over one's dead body — {adv. phr.}, {informal} Not having the ability to stop something undesirable from taking place. * / You will get married at age sixteen over my dead body! Jane s father cried./ … Dictionary of American idioms
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