| 单词 | as dead as a nit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas dead as a nit 3. as dead as a nit: utterly dead, completely lifeless. ΘΚΠ 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 1789 J. Wolcot Subj. for Painters in Wks. (1812) II. 191 Dead in a minute as a Nit. 1838 W. M. Thackeray Fashnable Fax in Wks. (1900) XIII. 254 Down he fell as dead as a nit. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xxi. 228 [The sheep] will all die as dead as nits. 1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. iii. 64 Massa tole John if he ever heard tell of him layin' a whip on his hawse agin he was gointer take and kill John's hawse dead as a nit. 1999 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 28 Dec. d1 In 2001, the..Cape Breton Development Corporation..will close its one remaining coal mine... ‘Jock’ Moores, a 61-year old retired machinist..says: ‘She's as dead as a nit.’ < as lemmas |
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