It was dead as a doornail, I saw that at once.

And there it is hanging on my wall, dead as a doornail.

The damned thing was dead as a doornail, just didn't know it.

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

There we were, messing around with his things, and all the time he was dead as a doornail in Paris.

"It's dead as a doornail," a senior aide said today.

She said the guy looked dead as a doornail."

"Aren't they saying that was Austin, and he's dead as a doornail.

Then we find the fish floating on the pond, dead as a doornail."

"The prospect of moving this highway, I think it can be safely said, is dead as a doornail."

I settled on getting raised from the dead, since a big part of me still felt dead as a doornail.

"That guy was dead as a doornail," he says.

Well, maybe not quite as dead as a doornail.

"I would have called the man myself if our phone wasn't as dead as a doornail since the heavy rain yesterday."

"Dead as a doornail; his poor head's bashed in something shocking!"

The Son of God was as dead as a doornail.

I have to pick it up, or it will go on lying there, dead as a doornail.

Or rather, lay there dead as a doornail.

"Dead as a doornail once they started down.

All my other stories, which Allie never tired of hearing until she was dead as a doornail, involved amateurs.

In Dead as a Doornail, the main character's brother turns into a werepanther.

"Dead as a doornail," said Ruby, moving into view beside Random.

Dead as a doornail , Elijah laughed again, correcting his friend.

'Well, the plants are all dead as a doornail,' said Constance, 'and she's not been in.

This is now regrettably as dead as a doornail.

The Son of God was as dead as a doornail.

Well, maybe not quite as dead as a doornail.

This is now regrettably as dead as a doornail.

"I would have called the man myself if our phone wasn't as dead as a doornail since the heavy rain yesterday."

It is buried and as dead as a doornail."

My computer's as dead as a doornail.

"Unless you're absolutely sure it's as dead as a doornail, don't mark it dead."

She was neither pleased nor displeased, since she was as dead as a doornail.

In fact he was working on slides of animal tissue which was fixed, sliced, stained and therefore as dead as a doornail.

The traditional machine tool industry that has been the cornerstone of the century-old Milacron is "as dead as a doornail," he said.

If I'd left him behind back there in May like I thought about doing, I'd be as dead as a doornail right about now.

And that couldn't have been Rudi Scherz, because he's as dead as a doornail.

'In layman's terms,' the doctor sniffed, 'he's as dead as a doornail.'

I explained this to Featherstone, but he looked gloomy and said, ' If you ask me this case is as dead as a doornail.'

I still get shivers from the ominous drumbeat and dark opening chords before the opening words of narration: "Old Marley was as dead as a doornail."

But then the doctor got furious and took the cat by the rump and threw her against the wall, and all at once she was as dead as a doornail.

While the preacher, "Holy Peters," was declaring the detective "as dead as a doornail," Holmes moved onto the podium disguised as an Italian priest cloaked in black.

Hans van den Broek, the community's External Affairs Commissioner and a former Dutch Foreign Minister, made it clear that he would tell the 12 leaders in Copenhagen that his own view was that "the Vance-Owen plan is as dead as a doornail and everybody knows it."

Theologian Frederick Buechner sums up this position in his 1973 book 'Whistling in the Dark': "...we go to our graves as dead as a doornail and are given our lives back again by God (i.e., resurrected) just as we were given them by God in the first place."