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doornail
[ dawr-neyl, dohr- ]
noun
- a large-headed nail formerly used for strengthening or ornamenting doors.
doornail
/ ˈdɔːˌneɪl /
noun
- (as) dead as a doornaildead beyond any doubt
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- dead as a doornail, stone-dead:
After midnight, the town is dead as a doornail.
More idioms and phrases containing doornail
see dead as a doornail .Example Sentences
The atmosphere in the O2 was as dead as a doornail hammered into a Dodo and buried in a concrete bunker.
“The 1.5 degree limit is deader than a doornail,” said Dr. Hansen, now the director of the Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions Program at Columbia University, during a news conference on Thursday.
Longtime political consultant Garry South told me he thinks Caruso is “dead as a doornail,” and the story on Bass and her scholarship “certainly won’t cost her the election.”
"When they opened that coffin, there he was, dead as a doornail."
“Well let’s just hope that it was Cluny. Personally, I’d like to think that he’s lying somewhere down there now, dead as a doornail.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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