Dead Wood

Notre Dame University is now just more dead-wood to be cut away from the Church, and probably has been for a long time. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Whatever the private feelings expressed inside the Great Wishford cottages by tiny dead-wood fires in midwinter, things then seem to have settled down until 1807, when the Earl of Pembroke bought the Manor of Wishford and the forest, and promptly brought an Act of Enclosure upon it to Parliament in 1809. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Right-sizing, communication plans, austerity-distilled policies, dead-wood clearance et al. A chunk of all these have no more than a symbolic effect on real-time cost savings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They must start getting rid of the dead-wood at the top. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You've got thousands of dead-wood lifers hanging around doing nothing but you don't have the stomach to purge them. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I should have known it would be a topic of interest when I found my husband reading the essay in my dead-wood copy of the Journal. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I do recall as a former public worker, under protection of the Civil Service, that it did make it almost impossible to get rid of “dead-wood” employees. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The Jerle Shannara shuddered and lurched as the parse tubes emitted fresh discharges of converted light, then shot forward across the enemy's stern, raking her decking and snapping off pieces of railing like dead-wood. ❋ Brooks, Terry (2002)

Then Tamis was back, dragging a huge limb by one end, dead-wood, well over eight feet in length, most of its smaller branches reduced to broken stubs. ❋ Brooks, Terry (2001)

Reaching down, he broke off a piece of damp dead-wood, intending to use it to nudge the petals aside so he could pass without having to walk on so much beauty. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean (1995)

The dead-wood was dropped over the side, and the tendrils with'drew out of sight. leaving the astonishing flower once more quiescent and wondrous. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean (1995)

Pick up some dead-wood for kindling on thy way home, eh? ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1989)

He made nothing of the dead-wood patch of fence, popped over on to the grass verge, took three loping strides over the tarmac, and in an instant was safely in the scrub on the far side. ❋ Francis, Dick (1962)

If they ask a man an embarrassing question, or in any way have placed him in an equivocal position, they will triumphantly declare that they have "got the dead-wood on him." ❋ Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (N/A)

Would not this be obviated by having a gate or slide to fill out the dead-wood when the screw is lifted? ❋ Various (N/A)

I got finally got a [promotion] but everyone in my [new group] is [dead wood]. ❋ Frizbee Dog (2006)

I was at [the pool] the other day and a [big Dead] Wood family came rolling in and they had the [blandest] look on their faces! ❋ Kingdom Miracle (2020)

"And let’s [face it]—a man who stuffs his [belly full] of dead pigs in the kitchen only to deliver [dead wood] in the bedroom becomes a big bore" -peta ❋ Hesitant Wang (2004)