Dead on
True
True adjective - Being exactly as appears or as claimed.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- It isn't true, though; a small number of people have in fact been declared dead on Disney property.
Source: Never Say "Die" -
Even more confusing is the "good" ending obtained through the replaying at the hardest setting where the True Big Bad is NOT faced because... well, he's already dead on the easier settings.
Source: Bolivian Army Ending -
For a long-time, there was the Seinfeld Curse, in which any show that starred a Seinfeld alum would be dead on arrival and cancelled after one season, which was true until Julia Louis-Dreyfus's moderately successful The New Adventures of Old Christine.
Source: I Am Not Spock
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