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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.