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dead serious

Very serious. This phrase is usually used as an intensifier to implore the listener to believe the speaker. I'm dead serious—stop playing tricks on me!

dead serious

absolutely serious; not joking. Tom: You're funning me. Bill: No, I'm dead serious. Mary has threatened divorce a hundred times, but this time she says she's dead serious.

Get serious!

Inf. Get realistic!; Stop horsing around! Oh, come on! Get serious! You don't really mean that!

serious about someone

in love with someone; romantically interested in someone. I'm afraid I'm getting serious about Bill. Bill, unfortunately, is pretty serious about Mary.

get down to some serious drinking

in. to settle down to a long session of drinking. Well, now we can get down to some serious drinking.

serious

mod. good; profound; excellent. (see also heavy.) Man, these tunes are, like, serious.

serious about someone

mod. in love, or almost in love, with someone. I’m afraid I’m getting serious about Bill.

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Number of youngsters killed on roads rising

I have been learning day by day that not taking it seriously and wanting what Love wants me to be moment by moment is the only thing that saves me from dwelling for the next 10 years on what our life will be like next year.

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The men became involved in a verbal altercation with the man before getting out of the van and seriously assaulting him, leaving him seriously injured.

Police appeal after attack on couple

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In Northumbria, 38 people were killed and 473 seriously injured in 2012 compared to 28 people killed and 439 seriously injured the year before.

Cyclists need help on road

He added that the policeman is seriously wounded and been rushed to hospital; while police launched a wide campaign searching for the sniper.

Policeman wounded in Falluja

The 1994-98 annual average for children killed or seriously injured was 22 and in 2010 it was three seriously injured (86.

YOUNGSTERS' LIVES 132132 SAVED BY MEASURES; Accident rates among UK's lowest

BEIRUT: A man was seriously wounded Friday after failing to stop at an army checkpoint in Akkar, the National News Agency reported.

Man shot after failing to stop at army checkpoint

Three weeks into the new year, and the Cheddar category is hotting up already, with Wyke Farms and Seriously Strong squaring up over who performed better over Christmas.

Wyke claims a seasonal win over Seriously Strong

SALAH AL-DIN / Aswat al-Iraq: Two policemen have been seriously injured in a booby-trapped car explosion north of Tikrit, a police source said on Tuesday.

2 cops injured in blast in Salah al-Din

Summary: Taza - Four people were killed and two others were seriously injured in a road accident on Tuesday in the north-eastern province of Taza, said the authorities of this province.

Road accident kills four, injures two north-eastern Morocco

Much of the recent commentary on the economy has been focused on the recovery, while seriously delinquent mortgages have quietly crept upwards.

Seriously delinquent mortgages in the Fourth District

A health chief has apologised to the parents of children left seriously ill by an E.

Agency 'sorry' for E.Coli failings; HEALTH

The injured were shifted to civil hospital DMJ while seriously injured were referred to Larkana town of Sindh for treatment.

Five killed, 19 injured in two road accidents

NEARLY half of Scottish motorists are seriously distracted by in-car technology while driving.