death against

English

Preposition

death against

1. (rare, nonstandard) Alternative form of dead against.
   • 1972, Burton Hersh, The Education of Edward Kennedy: A Family Biography, page 159:

     "I know," O'Donnell supposedly muttered. "I was death against it from the beginning . . . ."

   • 1982, Katharine Blaisdell, Over the River and Through the Years - Volume 4, page 3:

     He would always sniff for the telltale odor of kerosene, which the residents might have used for starting fires in their stoves — Edwin was death against it because of the hazard to the whole village.

   • 1983, Ira E. Shea, Margaret Elley Felt, The Grange was My Life, page 15:

     He was death against liquor, though.