be as dead as a doornail

(informal)

to be dead I found the fish, dead as a doornail, floating on the surface of the water. At first I though Jake was dead as a doornail, but he was only fast asleep.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Danel	-	Basque
Uzoma	-	Western African, Igbo
Sekai	-	Southern African, Shona
Anton	AHN-tawn (German), ahn-TON (Russian, Ukrainian), AHN-ton (Finnish)	German, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Dutch, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Slovene, Macedo
Samuele	sah-MWE-le	Italian
Affleck	['æflek]