dead letter

But today, the contract is a dead letter and the two officials are out of work.

I take messages and leave them in a dead letter box.

It's better just to put it away, you know, back in the dead letter file.

His tax plan is a dead letter; he damaged relations with Congress.

"It is clear that this law has been all but a dead letter.

However, this committee met only three times without any major impact and rapidly became a dead letter.

It is possible that some of the agreements reached will be dead letters.

What does he think I am, a dead letter?

These ideas may well remain a dead letter, since there is no evidence of any political will to turn them into reality.

However, both commitments continued to remain dead letters by 2010.

You have forgotten that a conviction, in itself, is nothing but a dead letter.

Is this all no more than a dead letter?

If not a dead letter, it is close to a laughingstock.

Caution must be taken, however, with the last group, which may consist of dead letters.

But fighting has escalated and the agreement now seems a dead letter.

But not every argument from the 1980s is a dead letter today.

This suited Britain's needs very well, but was largely a dead letter.

However, this law remained a dead letter and was repealed 20 years later.

In this the new student leaders had succeeded, while leaving the larger organization as dead letters.

The fact that the postwar treaty had been a dead letter for many years did not worry either party.

Cotton is a dead letter for the time being.

Even the dead letter office eventually gives up its dead.

By 1270, the ban on Aristotle's natural philosophy was a dead letter.

For too long, that coordination of economic policies has remained a dead letter in Europe.

For is not the voice of every loving spirit a fresh inspiration to the dead letter?