doornail in the PONS Dictionary

doornail Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

as dead as a doornail
as dead as a doornail

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
Are shareholders' funds now dead as a doornail?
www.fool.com.au
Such strength of character -- and it is strength of character -- has become an anachronism in a country where shame is deader than the proverbial doornail.
humanevents.com
Either way, he was dead as a doornail.
thetyee.ca
But the sago palm on one side of the sidewalk is green as summer, and the sago on the other side of the sidewalk looks dead as a doornail.
blog.al.com
It is dead as a doornail -- acltually even deader since the odd elctomagnetic current runs through a door nail (a metal one anyway).
blogs.crikey.com.au
When she confronted him about this, there was another push, she fell back, hit her head and looked, for all the world, as dead as a doornail.
www.radiotimes.com

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