dead-level

• “After 14 rounds at dead-level even, both warriors were spent.”

  The Guardian: The night I saw Muhammad Ali fight Joe Frazier – in Kensington | Frank Keating

• “She has a dead-level, opaque expression that guards the door while she weighs two options; it always reminds me of northern steppes and the merciless choices of warfare: Should I run this guy through with a dagger or kiss him?”

  Simon & Schuster: Kook

• “It was a perfect right that swelled on the shelf of a shallow reef and hit a rocky point and jacked up in a green and overhanging wall that shot one dead-level barrel after another across the inside of the bay.”

  Simon & Schuster: Kook

• “John Edwards whined about two Americas, Obama is doing his dead-level best to create it.”

  "I already paid the tax. Why do I have to pay it again just 'cause I died?"

• “All this makes it seems that those with a vested interest in making money off Michael Jackson's death are doing their dead-level best to keep the story going and to milk it for every last nickel, just like the bloodsuckers around him did when he was alive.”

  CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2009

• “The Osborne general election predictor says it is dead-level between Cameron and Brown”

  The Osborne general election predictor says it is dead-level between Cameron and Brown

• “The dead-level sanity and bone dullness of the Danes appalled him.”

  Jan Herman: Just for the Record

• “James Forsyth reveals that the George Osborne general election predictor says it is dead-level between Cameron and Brown, and reports on a disappointing poll for the Tories.”

  The week that was

• “Fans of true crime know they can rely on Ann Rule to deliver the dead-level best.”

  Simon & Schuster: Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder

• “BAYH: I'm going to do my dead-level best, Wolf, and I think at the end of the day, though, she is the one who will shine in our state.”

  CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2008

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