dead as a dodo

*dead as a dodo

and *dead as a doornail; deader than a doornail

dead; no longer in existence. (*Also: as ~.) That silly old idea is dead as a dodo. When I tried to start my car this morning, I discovered that the battery was deader than a doornail.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Peace	PEES	English (Rare)
Carmine	-	Italian
Lonny	LAHN-ee	English
Downing	[dauniŋ]
Adrian	AY-dree-ən (English), AHD-ryahn (Polish), AH-dree-ahn (German), ah-dree-AHN (Russian)	English, Romanian, Polish, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Russian
Sylvain	seel-VEN	French