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单词 dead as mutton
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(as) dead as mutton
b. dead as a door-nail, dead as a herring: completely or certainly dead. Also, (as) dead as the (or a) dodo, ( (as) dead as mutton.
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the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective]
deadOE
lifelessOE
of lifeOE
storvena1225
dead as a door-nail1362
ydead1387
stark deadc1390
colda1400
bypast1425
perishedc1440
morta1450
obita1450
unquickc1449
gone?a1475
dead and gone1482
extinct1483
departed1503
bygonea1522
amort1546
soulless1553
breathless1562
parted1562
mortified1592
low-laid1598
disanimate1601
carcasseda1603
defunct1603
no morea1616
with God1617
death-stricken1618
death-strucken1622
expired1631
past itc1635
incinerated1657
stock-dead1662
dead as a herring1664
death-struck1688
as dead as a nit1789
(as) dead as mutton1792
low1808
laid in the locker1815
strae-dead1820
disanimated1833
ghosted1834
under the daisies1842
irresuscitable1843
under the sod1847
toes up1851
dead and buried1863
devitalized1866
translated1869
dead and done (for, with)1886
daid1890
bung1893
(as) dead as the (or a) dodo1904
six feet under1942
brown bread1969
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. i. 161 Fey withouten fait is febelore þen nouȝt, And ded as a dore-nayl.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 628 For but ich haue bote of mi bale..I am ded as dore-nail.
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iv. ix. 39 And I do not leaue thee..as dead as a doore nayle.
1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor ii. iii. 11 Begar de Hearing be not so dead as I shall make him.]
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 213 Hudibras, to all appearing, Believ'd him to be dead as Herring.
1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius v. 57 As dead as a Herring, Stock-fish, or Door-nail.
1792 I. Bickerstaff Spoil'd Child ii. ii. 32 Thus let me seize my tender bit of lamb—there I think I had her as dead as mutton.
1832 T. Creevey in Creevey Papers (1903) II. 245 Dead as mutton, every man John of us!
1856 C. Reade It is never too Late III. viii. 65 Ugh! what, is he, is he—Dead as a herring.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 May 5/2 The Congo treaty may now be regarded as being as dead as a doornail.
1904 H. O. Sturgis Belchamber iv. 51 The Radicalism of Mill..is as dead as the dodo.
1919 W. S. Maugham Moon & Sixpence ii. 10 Mr. Crabbe was as dead as mutton, but Mr. Crabbe continued to write moral stories in rhymed couplets.
1935 Ann. Reg. 1934 ii. 305 References appearing in the London newspapers to the effect that ‘war debts are as dead as the Dodo’ were cabled to the American press.
1960 Guardian 24 Mar. 11/1 Mr. Menzies..refused a request for a boycott..saying he had hoped this ‘was as dead as a dodo’.
extracted from deadadj.n.adv.
(as) dead as mutton
b. (as) dead as mutton: completely dead. Also in extended use.
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1792 I. Bickerstaff Spoil'd Child ii. ii. 32 Thus let me seize my tender bit of lamb—there I think I had her as dead as mutton.
1832 T. Creevey in H. maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) II. 245 Dead as mutton, every man John of us!
1893 H. A. Bryden Gun & Camera Southern Afr. 176 I pulled up my pony, fired from the saddle,..and next instant..the koorhaan fell dead as mutton.
1935 ‘A. Bridge’ Illyrian Spring vi. 63 Why is it,..that people will go on holding you down to your old ideas when they're as dead as mutton?
1965 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Theories Primitive Relig. v. 100 For the most part the theories we have been discussing are, for anthropologists at least, as dead as mutton.
1990 P. Wiat Child Bride (BNC) 161 Oh, the maid was dead right enough. Dead as mutton.
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