Starting their first innings with only 62 overs left in the match, and the contest and their season dead as a doornail, Warwickshire's batting predictably lacked intensity. |
You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail. |
We finally found John's cat run over in the next road. It was as dead as a doornail. |
The saying dead as a doornail is still dead as a doornail: Whatever a doornail might be or was, long lost in the dark, The dark, the dark — not always deepest before dawn, Pal. |
All of a sudden one of the horses dropped down dead as a doornail. |
He merely just flopped back on the floor, now dead as a doornail. |