Translations for „doornail“ in the English » Polish Dictionary

doornail N

as dead as a doornail inf

martwy na amen

Usage examples with doornail

as dead as a doornail inf

martwy na amen

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

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

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

Are shareholders' funds now dead as a doornail?

www.fool.com.au

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