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Brewer's: Dead Lift
I am at a dead lift. In a strait or difficulty where I greatly need help; a hopeless exigency. A dead lift is the lifting of a dead or inactive body, which must be done by sheer force.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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