Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (leikkisä) deader than a doornail
Ääntäminen
AU
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| puola | zimny trup |
| ranska | mort et bien mort |
| saksa | mausetot |
| suomi | kuollut kuin kivi |
| tanska | død som en sild, stendød |
| venäjä | бездыха́нный (bezdyhánnyi), абсолю́тно мёртвый (absoljútno mjortvyi) |
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- (simile) Unquestionably dead. Used for both inanimate objects and once living beings.
Esimerkit
- I picked up the phone, but the line was dead as a doornail.
- We finally found John's cat run over in the next road. It was as dead as a doornail.
- Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
- Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.