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dead airAn unintended interruption in a radio broadcast during which there is no sound; a similar interruption of a television broadcast in which there is neither sound nor a video signal.Rate it:

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dead and buriedMoot, passed, irrelevant, forgotten.Rate it:

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dead as a dodoUndoubtedly and unquestionably dead.Rate it:

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dead as a doornailUnquestionably dead. Used for both inanimate objects and once living beings.Rate it:

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Dead as a DoornailTo lose hope, to become hopeless about successRate it:

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dead asleepSleeping in a deep sleepRate it:

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dead centerThe exact center, as of a targetRate it:

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dead centerThe position of the crank of a piston when it is in line with the connecting rodRate it:

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dead creature screecherGhost zombie enters your soul to eat your good deeds and bad deeds to enslave your spiritRate it:

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dead duckA project that is doomed to failure from the start.Rate it:

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Dead DuckA ruined person; a person or plan that is certain to die or failRate it:

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dead endA path or strategy that goes nowhere or is blocked on one end.Rate it:

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dead endcul-de-sacRate it:

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dead fishUsed other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see dead,‎ fish.Rate it:

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dead fishA sexual partner who lies flat during sex.Rate it:

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dead giveawayObvious, easily apparent.Rate it:

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dead heatA close race or contest in which no winner is apparent.Rate it:

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dead in the waterNearly dead, doomed.Rate it:

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dead in the waterUnproductiveRate it:

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dead meatA corpseRate it:

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dead meatSomeone in danger of death or severe punishment.Rate it:

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dead menUsed other than as an idiom: see dead, men.Rate it:

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dead men tell no talesOnce someone is dead, they can no longer communicate, hence killing someone is the best way to keep him/her quiet.Rate it:

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dead men's shoesA position or property that is only attainable by someone else upon the current holder's death.Rate it:

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dead onexactly rightRate it:

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dead ringerSomeone or something that very closely resembles another; someone or something easily mistaken for another.Rate it:

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dead set againstCompletely opposed, with no possibility of a change of mind.Rate it:

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dead shotPerfect shooterRate it:

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dead tiredvery tiredRate it:

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dead to rightsWith sufficient evidence to establish responsibility definitively.Rate it:

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dead weightThat which is useless or excess; that which slows something down.Rate it:

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dead weightWeight that does not move.Rate it:

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flog a dead horseTo attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more.Rate it:

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forgiveness is awarded posthumously after a person is dead.During life, a person may be subjected to criticism for what others deem "a wrong turn or deed". At funerals and cemeteries, the mood turns to grief and forgiveness.Rate it:

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leave for deadTo abandon a person or other living creature that is injured or otherwise incapacitated, assuming that the death of the one abandoned will soon follow.Rate it:

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leave for deadTo disregard or bypass as unimportant.Rate it:

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over my dead bodyUnder no circumstances; absolutely not.Rate it:

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stone deadUtterly dead.Rate it:

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stop deadTo stop suddenly.Rate it:

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咸家富貴"May your entire family drop dead".Rate it:

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ע״הOn whom should be peace; used after the name of a dead person.Rate it:

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belly upDead or defunct.Rate it:

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have had one's chipsTo be dead or finished.Rate it:

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deader than discoUnquestionably deadRate it:

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against the grainTo sand or plane a piece of wood parallel or nearly parallel to the fibers such that splinters forming ahead of the tool originate below the cutting surface.Rate it:

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Quaker gunA nonfunctional imitation of a gun or of a piece of artillery, typically made of wood and usually intended to deceive enemy forces into overestimating one's available firepower.Rate it:

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back to square oneLocated back at the start, as after a dead-end or failure.Rate it:

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saddleA block of wood, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.Rate it:

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throw dirt enough, and some will stickIf enough allegations are made about someone or something, then even if they are all untrue, people's opinion of the person or thing will be diminished.1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at on 14 Oct 06.I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, read at fullbooks.com on 14 Oct 06,But whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick.1864, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Penguin Classics (1994), p. 10,Archbishop Whately used to say Rate it:

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at peaceDead.Rate it:

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