dead level
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Verily he speaks the truth, with the scores dead level on 8½ apiece.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2015
The Hangover Part II was dead level with the previous weekend, and even Transformers: Dark of the Moon only fell 27% from its monster opening.
From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2011
The market overall was dead level with the previous weekend but an alarming 38% down on the equivalent frame from 2009, when Pixar's Up topped the chart with a hefty £6.41m.
From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2010
I am doing my dead level best to provide this country and our people with as good a Government as I am capable of.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The local pronunciation of the name is "Catlage," which is unhappily becoming obsolete, like so many other local pronunciations throughout England, under the orthographical dead level of elementary scholasticism.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward