in no way, under no circumstances
willing to go to extreme lengths to stop something from happening
an exaggerated way of saying, “Absolutely not”
You will go on a date with my sister over my dead body!
I told John that he could shave his head, over my dead body.
You think that I will give you the keys to my car? Over my dead body.
If they go ahead with their plan to cut down those trees, they’ll have to do so over my dead body.
There is no origin for this idiom
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