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Dead as a doornail

Adjective

Definitionen

1.AdjectiveUnquestionably dead. Used for both inanimate objects and once living beings.
"I picked up the phone, but the line was dead as a doornail.; We finally found John's cat run over in the next road. He was as dead as a doornail."
2.Adjective↑ G M Trevelyan (1944), English Social History
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