[
US
/ˈdɔɹˌneɪɫ/
]
[ UK /dˈɔːneɪl/ ]
[ UK /dˈɔːneɪl/ ]
NOUN
- a nail with a large head; formerly used to decorate doors
How To Use doornail In A Sentence
- He simply walked on by, cutting me as dead as a doornail, and shot into his house.
- Anthony Cronin's telling portrait of the time, Dead as Doornails, portrays the boozy pub-centred milieu as a place where the attitude and drinking seemed nihilistic and alcoholism and underachievement were rife.
- Even if you bid me good riddance and send me packing; if you wish I was dead as a doornail; if you think I am an eyesore, a laughing stock, the devil incarnate, a stony-hearted villain, bloody-minded, or a blinking idiot, Then -- by jove! Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Strange WordFellows -- Sarah Palin & William Shakespeare
- I'm afraid he's ever-so-slightly---" "Dead as a doornail ," finished Mr. Vandemar. NEVERWHERE
- One day Tod took from the trash a framed certificate and went and hung it on the toilet doornail.
- Be careful with that bottle. It's cyanide. One swallow and you'be dead as a doornail.