dead level
Example Sentences
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Verily he speaks the truth, with the scores dead level on 8½ apiece.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2015
Meanwhile Narnia flick Voyage of the Dawn Treader is cruising along steadily with takings up by 30% on the Christmas weekend and dead level with grosses from the 17-19 December weekend.
From The Guardian • Jan. 5, 2011
The market overall was dead level with the previous weekend but an alarming 38% down on the equivalent frame from 2009, when Pixar's Up topped the chart with a hefty £6.41m.
From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2010
"I may not be a great President, but as long as I am here, I am going to try to be a good President and do my dead level best to see this system preserved."
From Time Magazine Archive
The local pronunciation of the name is "Catlage," which is unhappily becoming obsolete, like so many other local pronunciations throughout England, under the orthographical dead level of elementary scholasticism.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward
