dead set

Daddy woke up very early the next morning, dead set on accomplishing an important mission—getting work.

He calls it The Dean Wormer effect, named for the buzzkill college official who is dead set on getting in the way of the Delta Tau Chi House’s good time.

“There were some colleagues that were dead set against it, saying they would never help China learn our technology,” said one magnet expert who ultimately agreed to go to China.

The administration “appears to be dead set on liquidating our public lands as quickly as possible,” said Drew McConville, senior fellow with the Center for American Progress, a nonprofit.

“It was like I was dead set on proving everybody I was a real Class-A f— up,” he said.