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doornail

[ dawr-neyl, dohr- ]

noun

  1. a large-headed nail formerly used for strengthening or ornamenting doors.


doornail

/ ˈɔːˌԱɪ /

noun

  1. (as) dead as a doornail
    dead beyond any doubt
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of doornail1

First recorded in 1300–50, doornail is from the Middle English word dornail. See door, nail
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Idioms and Phrases

  1. 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 .
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Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

The atmosphere in the O2 was as dead as a doornail hammered into a Dodo and buried in a concrete bunker.

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“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.

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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.”

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"When they opened that coffin, there he was, dead as a doornail."

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“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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