over my dead body

• (General American) IPA^(key): /oʊ.vɚ maɪ dɛd bɑ.di/

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over my dead body

1. (idiomatic, informal, usually hyperbolic) Under no circumstances; absolutely not.

   "Can I get a new sports car?" "Over my dead body!"

   • 1923 December, Volney G. Mathison, “The Woman-Handler”, in Radio, volume V, number 12, pages 68 and 70, column 3:

     “An’ now I hear you’re sendin’ our flagship Pastores out at four o’clock this afternoon with another cock-eyed cross between a giraffe an’ a Gila monster— / “By my soul, never!” yells th’ G.P.A., jumpin’ up like a bumb has gone off under him. “If the Pastores sails with that red-skirted gorilless aboard, it’ll be over my dead body!”