over my dead body

English

Etymology

over (“above”) + my (“pertaining to me”) + dead (“deceased”) + body (“corpse”)

Adverb

over my dead body

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

   Young son: "Can I get a new sports car?"

   Mom: "Over my dead body!"

Translations

absolutely not

Chinese: Mandarin: 除非我死了 (zh) (chúfēi wǒ sǐ le) Czech: jen přes mou mrtvolu (cs) Dutch: over mijn lijk (nl) French: pas de mon vivant (fr), il faut que tu me tue premier (fr) German: nur über meine Leiche (de) Greek: πάνω από το πτώμα μου (el) Hungarian: csak a testemen át (hu) Icelandic: fyrr skal ég dauður liggja (is) Japanese: そんなことは絶対させない (ja) (sonna koto-wa zettai sasenai) Macedonian: преку мене мртов (préku méne m'rtov) (male speaker), преку мене мртва (préku méne m'rtva) (female speaker) Malay: langkah mayatku dahulu (ms)

Norwegian: over mitt lik (no) Polish: po moim trupie (pl) Portuguese: só por cima do meu cadáver (pt), sobre o meu cadáver (pt) Russian: через мой труп (ru) (čérez moj trup) Scottish Gaelic: a-mhàin thar mo mharbhan Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: са̏мо пре̏ко ме̏не мр̑тво̄г (sh) Roman: sȁmo prȅko mȅne mȓtvōg (sh) Spanish: sobre mi cadáver (es) Swedish: över min döda kropp (sv) Turkish: cesedimi çiğnersin (tr), cesedimi çiğnemeden olmaz (tr)