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Discover Ludwig"dead meat" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used as a metaphor to describe someone who is in a difficult or dangerous situation and has little chance of escaping it. Example: "If he doesn't come up with the money soon, he'll be dead meat with the loan sharks." This sentence is using "dead meat" to convey that the person is in a dangerous and dire situation with no way out.
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dead meat
noun
A corpse
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We were dead meat.
"She's dead meat," he declares.
Without the flippers, it's dead meat".
The dead meat, the colour of blood.
"Is Pill dead meat?" "What is that stuff?" Anna said.
Anyone on the list, its protagonist warns, is "dead meat".
"It's like, if we don't, we're dead meat".
If I cut out too much, we'd be dead meat".
Once you got on the train, you were dead meat".
People don't eat canned dead meat every day.
Dead Meat/Bat Dad Lately I've been listening to a pair of rugged, abject-sounding rock bands from Miami and San Francisco: Dead Meat and Bad Dad.
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