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dead meat

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dead meat
Fig. dead; as good as dead. (Usually an exaggeration.) If you don't do exactly as I say, you are dead meat!
See also: dead, meat


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George Rossman, a mineralogy professor at the California Institute of Technology, says, "lf you take leather, an organic material, and just use it as it is, it'll smell like dead meat in a little while.
I know darned well that our health department should have been able to tell the difference between the smell of a dead body and the smell of dead meat," he told AFP.
We should accept that in the great scheme of things we're all dead meat.
 
 
 
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