dead set
idiom
: firmly determined
The mayor was dead set against [=strongly opposed to] the plan.
She was dead set on [=completely certain about] going to college.
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Unlike Daniel LaRusso, however, Li knows his stuff: He’s trained in kung fu by his longtime shifu and great-uncle, Mr. Han (Chan), but his mother is dead set against her boy fighting.
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 29 May 2025
Macron may be a quintessential Europeanist, but Marine Le Pen, who could very well win the 2027 presidential election, is an arch nationalist who doesn't care a lick about the European political community and is dead set against loaning France's nuclear weapons to other countries.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
Special Agent Alden Parker will be dead set on revenge when NCIS Season 23 rolls around this fall, says series star Gary Cole.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 11 May 2025
But many of his other aides were dead set against abruptly blowing up relations with America’s two closest neighbors for the sake of an applause line at a political rally.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2025
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 29 May 2025
Macron may be a quintessential Europeanist, but Marine Le Pen, who could very well win the 2027 presidential election, is an arch nationalist who doesn't care a lick about the European political community and is dead set against loaning France's nuclear weapons to other countries.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
Special Agent Alden Parker will be dead set on revenge when NCIS Season 23 rolls around this fall, says series star Gary Cole.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 11 May 2025
But many of his other aides were dead set against abruptly blowing up relations with America’s two closest neighbors for the sake of an applause line at a political rally.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2025
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“Dead set.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dead%20set. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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