over my dead body

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

over my dead body

1. (idiomatic, hyperbolic) Under no circumstances; absolutely not.
   • 1831 The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats page 211

     SCENE V. To these enter MAcDonald, and DEVEREUx, with the HALBERDIERs. Gordon (throwing himself between him and them). . No, monster! First over my dead body thou shalt tread.

   "Can I get a new sports car?" "Over my dead body!"

Translations

absolutely not

• Afrikaans: oor my dooie liggaam
• Arabic:

  Gulf Arabic: على جِثِّتِي (ʿala jiṯṯitī)

• Bulgarian: само през трупа ми (samo prez trupa mi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 除非我死了 (chúfēi wǒ sǐ le)

• Czech: jen přes mou mrtvolu
• Danish: over mit lig
• Dutch: over mijn lijk
• Finnish: kuolleen ruumiini yli
• French: pas de mon vivant, moi vivant, jamais
• Georgian: არავითარ შემთხვევაში (aravitar šemtxvevaši)
• German: nur über meine Leiche (de)
• Greek: πάνω από το πτώμα μου (páno apó to ptóma mou)
• Hungarian: csak a testemen át
• Icelandic: fyrr skal ég dauður liggja (is)
• Japanese: そんなことは絶対させない (sonna koto-wa zettai sasenai)
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• Macedonian: само преку мене мртов (samo preku mene mrtov) (male speaker); само преку мене мртва (samo preku mene mrtva) (female speaker)
• Malay: langkah mayatku dahulu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: over mitt lik

  Nynorsk: over mitt lik

• Persian: مگر از روی جسد من رد بشی (magar az ruye jasad-e man rad beši)
• Polish: po moim trupie (pl)
• Portuguese: só por cima do meu cadáver (pt), sobre o meu cadáver
• Russian: че́рез мой труп (ru) (čérez moj trup)
• Scottish Gaelic: a-mhàin thar mo mharbhan
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: са̏мо пре̏ко ме̏не мр̑тво̄г

  Roman: sȁmo prȅko mȅne mȓtvōg

• Spanish: sobre mi cadáver
• Swedish: över min döda kropp (sv)
• Turkish: cesedimi çiğnersin, cesedimi çiğnemeden olmaz