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The great god Pan is dead, as a voice was heard to cry by sailors in the age of the Roman emperor Augustus.

After my long illness, any hopes I might have had of going to college next year were as dead as a doornail.

In 1997, when he returned to the company as CEO, Apple was as close to dead as a company can be.

He drove into a tree at over a hundred miles an hour and is as dead as a doornail.

Fortunately, the snake was as dead as a doornail.

Two civilians in Gaza are dead as a result of Israeli air strike today. The number dead is now 18 over three days of strikes.

The treaty may be considered to be as dead as a doornail.

Michael had his hair cut yesterday , in a style as dead as a dodo. he insisted that he wanted it on purpose.

More than 80 people are dead as a result of the worst wildfires in Australia in a quarter century.

It lay there with its eyes closed, dead as a doornail.

A rich rogue is like a fat hog, who never does good till as dead as a log.

Many fishes were dead as a result of excessive nourishment in the river.

Tina bought a new dress yesterday , and the dress has a style as dead as a dodo.

All the television pundits said I was dead as a doornail.

For God sake, I'm gonna be as dead as a doornail in five days.

and here you've laid, as dead as a wedge til now .

My last hope is as dead as a door nail.

I burst into the room and found him as dead as a doornail.

And newspapers are a long way from being dead as a go-to information source.

LESTAT: I do it for you. She's dead, as a doornail, my friend.

That is, you're dead as a person.

Last year's fashions in clothes are dead as a dodo now.

be careful with that bottle . it ' s cyanide . one swallow of that and you ' d be dead as a doornail

as dead as a herring