| 单词 | doornail |
| 例句 | A phrase that’s not just overused, but depressing. dead as a doornail. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “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.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Right in the middle of the floor was her dog, deader than a doornail. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I settled on getting raised from the dead, since a big part of me still felt dead as a doornail. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The Son of God was dead as a doornail. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dead as a doornail” becomes “Assigned to a congressional subcommittee.” Gene Weingarten has the trite stuff 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z When she tells him, “Mom’s getting married,” he answers in mystification, “Married? That’s impossible. My mom’s dead as a doornail. Doornails don’t get married.” Review: ‘Iowa’ Is a State of Absurdity at Playwrights Horizons 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Narrators kept assuring me that Marley is “dead as a doornail,” and Scrooge’s line about wanting to meet all three ghosts “at once and get it over with” failed to get a laugh every time. On eight-stop ‘Christmas Carol’ tour, varied takes on Ebenezer Scrooge 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z “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. 35 Years After Addressing Congress, James Hansen Still Has Climate Warnings 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z 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.” Column: Bass has big lead, but Caruso supporters say race for L.A. mayor isn't over 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z “Today, the left teaches kids to hate America. But not here. Biden’s critical race theory: racist, wrong and dead as a doornail. Transgender sports: toast.” Republicans Play on Fears of ‘Great Replacement’ in Bid for Base Voters 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z "When they opened that coffin, there he was, dead as a doornail." Betty White's funniest 'Golden Girls' moments as Rose Nylund 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z A dead cell is, to echo Dickens’s description of Marley, “as dead as a doornail”. Ghostly metabolic messages from dying cells 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump told a police chiefs’ convention on Monday that al-Baghdadi was “dead as a doornail.” Trump says U.S. forces kill second top Islamic State leader 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z “He was a sick and depraved man and now he’s dead — he’s dead as a doornail,” Trump said of Mr. al-Baghdadi, drawing some laughter from his audience. Trump Says Past Presidents Should Have Killed ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z "He's dead as a doornail," Trump continued, prompting laughter from the audience. Trump rips Obama in victory lap over ISIS leader's death: "Another president should have gotten him" 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z "The minstrel tradition, the blackface tradition in America is dead as a doornail." Guest on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show: “The blackface tradition in America is dead as a doo... 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z “As far as I’m concerned, the governor’s proposals on that are as dead as a doornail,” said GOP Rep. Jim Knoblach, who chairs the Ways and Means committee. House GOP budget plan puts Legislature at odds with Dayton 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Loesch also declared that feminism was “dead as a doornail” and accused third-wave feminists of trying to replace the patriarchy with a matriarchy. 'We tried nice guys': conservative hardliners stay in a trance for Trump 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Kennedy, in his first term, was blunt: "It’s dead. It’s dead as a doornail. We’re not going to get it done. We need to go do tax reform and then come back to health care." The Republican Fight to Repeal Obamacare Is 'Dead as a Doornail.' For Now 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z “Dead as a doornail,” was his assessment of Mr. Hall in a previously unreleased interview from two years ago. What Drives Donald Trump? Fear of Losing Status, Tapes Show 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Besides, Chicago has some of the strictest gun controls in America, but that little boy is still as dead as a doornail. DEBORAH SIMMONS: Please, Obama, Pelosi, others: Stop blaming Republicans and guns 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Until Anderson produced a spell of unquestioned brilliance either side of the tea interval on the final day, the game was as dead as a Christmas Carol doornail. England denied at the last by Sri Lanka stubbornness and review 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Dead as doornails, while new age bankers worldwide are more worried about their own tax compliance and anti-money-laundering rigors. Topless Kate Middleton? Nothing Compared to Bank Secrecy Laid Bare 2012-09-18T04:06:37Z Face it, movie fans: the DVD is destined to be dead as a doornail. How Hollywood Is Encouraging Online Piracy 2012-08-21T04:15:00.187Z She appears now absolutely corked, her commerce and communications dead as a doornail, and the British activity in undisturbed possession of the seas. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Nonetheless, Mr. Hedlund, a Republican, said the amendment appeared to be “dead as a doornail” in the conference committee of the Democratic-controlled legislature. Massachusetts Mulls Letting Bars Offer Happy Hours 2011-11-14T01:39:33Z And when the troll saw the sun he burst—and was as dead as a doornail! The Swedish Fairy Book 2011-08-26T02:00:23.380Z I happened to meet them at Bar Harbor last week, and as it was dead as a doornail down there, I begged them to allow me to come on here with them.” Lola 2010-12-24T03:00:35.720Z Cap and trade is now as dead as a doornail, as the American people rejected it at the ballot box on November 2. Green: Senator Inhofe: 'I Was Right and They Were Wrong' 2010-12-03T16:16:00Z "Say, it's been deader'n a doornail around here for a week," confessed the Meadow Street youth. The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended I had one of them pretty well pinned, when he fired from under his horse’s belly and my pony went down, as dead as a doornail. The Great Cattle Trail It was deep shell, you understand, and sometimes a diver went down and never came up, and you could see him shimmering down below like the back of a shark, as dead as a doornail. Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas I could see by a look they was dead as a doornail. Year of the Big Thaw You're dead—dead as a doornail; dead as a mummy—the mummy that walked the streets of Thebes when Moses was a young man.” The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives He's as dead as a doornail ... anyway, it's nothing to do with us! War and the Weird A loud crack was heard, and she was seen to spring up and fall back upon the snow, dead as a doornail. The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North I suppose we'd better send for a doctor," said Max, "though the man's as dead as a doornail. The Wharf by the Docks A Novel They don't seem to realise that love's as dead as a doornail now. The Spinners "Dead as a doornail," he murmured to Chick, who also had approached. With Links of Steel The neighbor boy, I am dreadfully sorry to say, is dead as a doornail and his body and brain are unraveling. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America When Brumpton has a cataleptic fit, and is apparently dead as a doornail, the spouse confides his body to the undertaker with feelings of serene pleasure. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield According to established legal uses, A card apiece each bold disputant chooses— Dead as a doornail is the dog who loses— The winner steps into the dead man's shoeses! The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan "It's dead as a doornail, programmed for grid lock." Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel He had choked him dead as a doornail. Men in War He had been a great King but he was deader than a doornail now. Seven O'Clock Stories "A hundred to ten, if the present state of his health continues, before a month the governor will be as dead as a doornail." Mysteries of Paris, V3 This will put an end to your company's boats coming up here for traffic,—it will kill you deader'n a doornail so far as business is concerned. Viola Gwyn But that was not of much use either, as the Snake was as dead as a doornail. The Art of the Story-Teller All of a sudden one of the horses dropped down dead as a doornail. The Story of an African Farm, a novel |
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