dead as a doornail

Meaning

1. (as) dead as a doornail

   completely dead

In the movies · 3

• My agent told me it was dead as a doornail.Sunset Boulevard1950
• ...or I'll make him dead as a doornail.The World According to Garp1982
• - You're dead as a doornail, Smalls. - You're dead as a doornail.The Sandlot1993
• Dead as a doornail.Samaritan2022
• Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring.Patch Adams1998
• With the newspapers and the radio stations that these gentlemen control, we can kill the John Doe movement deader than a doornail.Meet John Doe1941

Learn it in full scenes

• Sunset Boulevard1950
  • The Repo Men Come for the Car
  • Joe Pitches Bases Loaded at Paramount
  • Joe Is Mistaken for the Undertaker

From the same entry

• be dead and gone
• be a dead ringer for
• dead as a dodo
• a dead duck
• the dead hand of
• dead in the water
• dead meat
• dead on arrival
• dead to the world
• over my dead body
• wouldn't be seen dead
• flog a dead horse