over my dead body
If you say something willhappenoveryourdeadbody, youmeanthat you will do everything you can topreventit:
只要我还有一口气就不能那样做；除非我死了"Joe says he's going tobuyamotorbike." "Over mydeadbody!"“乔说他想买辆摩托车。”“只要我还有一口气就不准他买！”
Preventing and impeding
- anti-jamming
- avert
- avoid
- avoidable
- bar
- be a drag onsomeone/somethingidiom
- bottleneck
- derail
- fireproof
- hamper
- hang
- havesomeone/somethinghanging roundyourneckidiom
- head off
- hinder
- prevent
- preventable
- prevention
- prevention is better than cureidiom
- preventive
- scuttle
Examplesofover my dead body
over my dead body
Overmydeadbodyshall we put advertising into foreign broadcasts.
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If he is suggesting that, it will beovermydeadbody.
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She declared that reprocessing would go ahead only "overmydeadbody".
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They could only challenge the monarchyovermydeadbody.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Kreviazuk performs the song's chorus, in which she plaintively sings the words they're trying to take you away from me / onlyovermydeadbody.
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