| 词组 | over my dead body |
| 释义 | Idiom over my dead body Theme: NEGATION not if I can stop you. (Slang. It means that you'll have to kill me to prevent me from keeping you from doing something.)Over my dead body you'll sell this house!You want to quit college? Over my dead body! Slang over my dead body Theme: WARNING phr. “not if I can stop you”; “you won't be able to do something if I am alive to prevent you.”You'll drop out of school over my dead body!Get married and move to Arizona? Over my dead body! Idiom over my dead body I will never let this happen.“Wouldn't it be cool if Dad's band played at your party?” “Over my dead body!” Usage notes: said in reaction to what someone else has said over my dead body used as an expression of the strongest will to resist. Hyperbole UK, 1936over my dead bodyI will never allow it; under no circumstances will that be permitted to happen (i.e., something can only happen if I am not alive to prevent it). Over my dead body will you drive home after you've been drinking! A: "I heard Sarah wants to drop out of school to be a painter." B: "Yeah, over my dead body!" Over my dead body!Inf. Fig. a defiant phrase indicating the strength of one's opposition to something. (A joking response is "That can be arranged.") Sally: Alice says she'll join the circus no matter what anybody says. Father: over my dead body! Sally: Now, now. You know how she is. Bill: I think I'll rent out our spare bedroom. Sue: over my dead body! Bill (smiling): That can be arranged. over my dead bodyIn 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] over my dead bodyYou 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'. over my dead bodyused to emphasize that you completely oppose something and would do anything to prevent it from happening. informalover ˌmy dead ˈbody(spoken) used for saying that you will do everything possible to stop something happening: ‘Mum, can I get a tattoo?’ ‘Over my dead body!’Over my dead body!and OMDB exclam. & comp. abb. [You won’t do it] if I can stop you from doing it! You’ll do it OMDB. over my dead body Used to express dramatic refusal. over my dead bodyI will not allow you to do this. This hyperbole, often used in jocular fashion, dates from early-nineteenth-century America. H. Brighouse used it in the one-act play, New Leisure (1936): “Elsie Dixon doing confidential secretary! Over my dead body!” A New Yorker piece about evangelists described a photograph of the evangelist preacher Jerry Falwell plunging down a water slide: “He is clearly not enjoying himself. In fact, the photograph suggests that he is doing this over his own dead body” (1990). |
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