dead level
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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
The all-pervasive Swiss grand-hotel influence is also present, but not with sufficient force to flatten out the food to the dead level of tastelessness that prevails in four-fifths of the world's higher-priced hostelries.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"I found a wild bee gum down thar," he went on in a dead, level tone.
From The Code of the Mountains by Buck, Charles Neville