As dead as they were, even doornails did not spontaneously generate themselves. ❋ Michael A. Martin (2010)
Same thing that makes them act dumber than doornails about everything when they're in the majority, I'm thinking. ❋ Unknown (2010)
What is it about becoming the minority that makes the republicans act 'dumber than doornails' about EVERYTHING????? ❋ Unknown (2010)
From memory, the last time anyone in the UK got any traction from flogging this elderly nag was in 2001 when Andrew Marr told readers of the Observer that the novel was deader than a dozen doornails. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Now it's like they're Siamese Twins from Hell bringing each other down from opposite ends of the AEG affair, neither of them obeying the law and both dumber than doornails. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I assume that it's safe to assume that the RCA Living Stereo and Mercury Living Presence SACD rerelease series are most definitely dead as doornails and have been for years. ❋ Patrick J. Smith (2009)
The big story this month was, once again, the media falling flat on their collective faces after spending months patting themselves on the back and complimenting each other on their cleverness in pronouncing the public option deader than doornails. ❋ Unknown (2009)
About 10 kilometers from these incongruous messages one happens upon three borrachos in their 50s dead as doornails in their pickup truck as a consequence of having pulled in front of a garbage truck and, at that point, quite content. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Most were dead as doornails along roads - the leathery animals with poor vision are no match against highway traffic. ❋ Bill Crider (2006)
They will then hold both the House and the Senate because Americans are bumb as doornails. ❋ Unknown (2006)
But she would not own that they were dead, and hoped on against hope, until the day when Perks came up to see the garden, and told her quite plainly that all her roses were as dead as doornails. ❋ Edith (2003)
All Sarah could see was that five of her gorgeous sons were dead as doornails and that bitch was still walking around like she owned the whole world. ❋ Cole, Martina (2002)
They said if words could kill, everybody over there, includin 'men on Pepperdyne's own team, would be deader' n doornails. ❋ Brown, Sandra (1995)
As you pry loose with your nail file the doornails so that you might tiptoe inside to hold a mirror to monkey nostrils, to feel for monkey pulse, your mind is already scanning for alibis, ways to pin the fatal misdeed on someone else. ❋ Robbins, Tom (1994)
So persistent was his attitude that at short intervals throughout the entire winter rumours that "th 'hopper eggs is dead 's doornails" stirred the community and set its members to making tests in a vain endeavour to establish their truth. ❋ Dell H. Munger (N/A)
Damn, [that kid] is a true [doornail]. Let's call him that from [now on]. ❋ 0_0 (2006)
[Scott]? Yeah, [that guy] is a [real] doornail pusher. ❋ Sketerbuck (2019)
"are you [saran wrap]?"
"who's that?"
"wow [your dumb] as a [doornail]" ❋ Ashleyyaddiction (2007)
I don't think I'm gonna be [able] to get your car started , that [battery] is [deader than a doornail] ! ❋ Dragonboy8586 (2020)
On the morticians [slab] both [Qusay and Uday] were [laid out] cold, both dead as a doornail, they looked so peacfull that it made me really happy to see them lying there. ❋ Blue Cawdrey (2004)
