dead as a doornail in English

totally dead

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1. She looked dead as a doornail.

2. The old man was dead as a doornail.

3. Times are bad, the market is dead as a doornail.

4. It lay there with its eyes closed, dead as a doornail.

5. The treaty may be considered to be as dead as a doornail.

6. It writhed painfully and quickly sank to the bottom, dead as a doornail.

7. He shot the tiger until it was as dead as a doornail.

8. If looks could kill, Dooley Barlowe would have dropped him right there, dead as a doornail.

9. Be careful with that bottle. It's cyanide. One swallow and you'be dead as a doornail.

10. The wolf yipped in Consternation, frozen in place."-Dead as a Doornail, by Charlaine Harris

11. It curled and writhed about painfully, then quickly sank to the bottom, dead as a doornail.

12. There we were, messing around with his things, and all the time he was dead as a doornail in Paris.