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dead meat

idiom
Meaning

Someone in danger of being killed or severely punished.


Examples
SIMPLE

If you break that expensive vase, you are dead meat.

CONTEXTUAL

The student knew he was dead meat when the teacher found the cheat sheet in his pocket.

COMPLEX

Realizing he had accidentally deleted the company's primary database, the intern understood he was dead meat once the manager returned.

Anchors to
Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    beat a dead horse

    To persist or continue far beyond any purpose, interest or reason.

  2. 02

    brown bread

    [Cockney slang]dead

  3. 03

    chew the meat and spit out the bones

    To take in a great deal of information and selectively disregard some of it as invalid or inapplicable.

  4. 04

    come back from the dead

    To experience a resurgence after one's productive years are assumed to have ended.

  5. 05

    dead 'n' buried

    Contraction of dead and buried.

  6. 06

    dead air

    An unintended interruption in a broadcast during which nothing is transmitted: a silent period on radio or a silent period with no picture on television.

  7. 07

    dead and buried

    Of an issue, moot, passed, irrelevant, forgotten.

  8. 08

    dead asleep

    Sleeping in a deep sleep

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