be (dead) set against something/doing something
Definition: to be completely opposed to something/doing something
Example: She's dead set against (the idea of) working overseas.
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- jump the gun
- a foregone conclusion
- blot one's copybook
- make sense
- (as) blind as a bat
- by degrees
- first and foremost
- be (dead) set against
- at a (single) glance
- doubting Thomas
- feel/go hot and cold (all over)
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