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"The program's on its back with all four legs sticking in the air, dead as a dodo.

A pity that this sort of thinking is as dead as a dodo.

Its dead as a dodo but the rent-seekers will continue to protect their nests.

The house is 'as dead as a dodo', said an insider yesterday.

Here's a Canada thistle that couldn't stand the competition, dead as a dodo.

The campaign was as dead as a dodo.

To many in the discipline, functionalism is now considered "as dead as a dodo."

'It's as dead as a dodo,' she said, referring to the sheep.

I'd have been as dead as a dodo if I hadn't been wearing rubber-soled shoes.

Dead as a dodo.

Look back to yesterday's article on the Obamaberry and see the picture of four devices that are now as dead as a dodo.

"In which context, I'm sorry to tell you that Arnold Bluhm is as dead as a dodo and has been for weeks.

'Dead as a Dodo,' said Fresco.

In the second half, Oxford brought on winger, Chrissy Allen in the hope of livening things up, but the game was as dead as a dodo.

The WWT says the birds remain in quarantine in Moscow (Nearly as dead as a dodo, 17 October, page 13, G2).

In DEAD AS A DODO (Viking, $21.95), Homer takes a leave from Harvard to lecture at the Oxford University Museum.

(With Paul Rice) As Dead as a Dodo, illustrated by Shawn Rice, David Godine (Boston, MA), 1981.

In "The Bretts II," as the concluding six episodes are labeled, the age of the actor and manager is, as the series host Alistair Cooke succinctly puts it, "a tradition as dead as a dodo."

One of these days they'll get the hang of the electric chair and I'll come home and find the Radleys' boy with a saucepan on his head and a damned great cable running to the cooker plug, as dead as a dodo.'

But by 7:45 p.m., the effort to impeach President Clinton was "dead as a dodo," and MSNBC pundits were wondering how long it would be till enraged Republicans deposed Newt Gingrich as speaker of the House.

The Dodo's significance as one of the best-known extinct animals and its singular appearance led to its use in literature and popular culture as a symbol of an outdated concept or object, as in the expression "dead as a Dodo," which has come to mean unquestionably dead or obsolete.