The phrase “over my dead body” is typically reserved for extreme instances where you want to express desperate and dramatic opposition to a measure of change someone is trying to bring about. Such as a suggestion at a local forum in which Agatha from down the street proposes filling the local skate park bowl with water every summer in order to repurpose it temporarily as a community poo. You, an avid skater, may stand up and declare, “Over my dead body!” Now, of course, you don't really mean th…

This customer wasn't happy about the service she had received or the price she had been charged—especially surprising considering she had been given a discount. She thought she could even get against the shop for the perceived slight against her and decided to execute a ‘malicious compliance’ by paying her repair bill entirely in pennies. She failed to calculate the fact that the owner might be happy to oblige her preferred method of payment—simply to watch her have to haul in sacks and sacks o…