I'm dead, sure enough, and this thing is in charge." Cause you did something that other people won't be happy about If you hear someone say: I am dead, he / she probably means that he / she did something bad and will get in trouble For example: You are playing football in the backyard with a friend. dead; as good as dead. Jessica will say" i'm dead" and don't do what she was asked. Get a i'm dead … i'm deadunknown. See also: dead, meat. Jessica will you pass me the remote. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (Usually an exaggeration.)

by JessicaMMFH August 21, 2019. I'm dead! when someone asks you to do something and you don't wanna do it. I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. Fig. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. I’ll follow you to heaven in a minute.—I’m dying, Horatio.—Goodbye, miserable queen.—And all you people watching, pale and trembling, speechless spectators of these acts, I could tell you a thing or two if I had the time (though this … God will free you from blame. If you don't do exactly as I say, you are dead meat! I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all some day. "