0 If you say something will happen over your dead body, you mean that you will do everything you can to prevent it:
Over my dead body shall we put advertising into foreign broadcasts.
If he is suggesting that, it will be over my dead body.
She declared that reprocessing would go ahead only "over my dead body".
They could only challenge the monarchy over my dead body.
Kreviazuk performs the song's chorus, in which she plaintively sings the words they're trying to take you away from me / only over my dead body.