Dead set

The judge at the dog show took points off the Irish setter's dead set because its right ear twitched a few times.

to be at a dead set

I might not graduate first in my class, but I'll make a dead set at it.

The result was that everyone made a dead set on Collins. It was the same in conversation. When he put his head in everyone turned on him. He was roared down unmercifully, with the inevitable result that he lost his temper.

If John is dead set on marrying Catherine, his parents' objection will only provoke a falling out.

The governor is dead set against the concealed weapons permit legislation and will veto it even if it costs her the re-election.

There are people here who are dead set on convincing everybody this hurricane is the result of climate change.

On Monday, he tasked his third prime minister in 12 months, Sébastien Lecornu, to try again to find common ground between political parties dead set against doing so.

He is a dead set fool.