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dead ahead

[dead ahead] {adv.}, {informal} Exactly in front; before.

/The school is dead ahead about two miles from here./

/Father was driving in a fog, and suddenly he saw another car dead ahead of him./

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates © 2010

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