Over my dead body
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"Over my dead body" is an English laconic phrase
, an expression meaning there is absolutely no way a person will allow something. Similar to "no way".
Over my dead body may also refer to the following:
Laconic phrase
A laconic phrase is a very concise or terse statement, named after Laconia , a polis of ancient Greece surrounding the city of Sparta proper. In common usage, Sparta referred both to Lacedaemon and Sparta...
, an expression meaning there is absolutely no way a person will allow something. Similar to "no way".
Over my dead body may also refer to the following:
- Over My Dead Body (novel)Over My Dead Body (novel)Over My Dead Body is the seventh Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. The story first appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine...
, a 1940 Nero WolfeNero WolfeNero Wolfe is a fictional detective, created in 1934 by the American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe's confidential assistant Archie Goodwin narrates the cases of the detective genius. Stout wrote 33 novels and 39 short stories from 1934 to 1974, with most of them set in New York City. Wolfe's...
novel by Rex Stout - Over My Dead Body (play)Over My Dead Body (play)Over My Dead Body is a comedy/thriller play, written by Michael Sutton and Anthony Fingleton, "suggested by" Robert L. Fish's 1968 novel The Murder League....
, a 1989 thriller at London's Savoy Theatre - Over My Dead Body (TV series), a 1990 detective drama
- Over My Dead Body (band)Over My Dead Body (band)Over My Dead Body was a straight edge hardcore punk band from San Diego that featured former members from Built To Last, Forced Life, Palpatine, Four Walls Falling and Unbroken. David Kennedy of Box Car Racer, Hazen Street and Angels & Airwaves fame was also in the band for a short period between...
, the San Diego straight-edge hardcore band