Crossword-Solution: DOORNAIL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Doornail | n. | The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "As dead as a doornail." |
We have 9 clues for the answer “DOORNAIL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Carpentry item in a common simile | 1 answer |
| Deadness exemplified | 1 answer |
| Deadness symbol | 1 answer |
| Epitome of deadness | 1 answer |
| Paradigm of deadness | 1 answer |
| Something in a simile that's dead beyond doubt | 1 answer |
| Symbol of deadness. | 1 answer |
| Symbol of lifelessness | 1 answer |
| Dead as a ___ | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DOORNAIL (5)
According to established legal uses, A card apiece each bold disputant chooses— Dead as a doornail is the dog who loses— The winner steps into the dead man's shoeses! ALL.
Look on me well: I have eat no meat these five days, yet come thou and thy five men, and if I do not leave you all as dead as a doornail, I pray God I may never eat grass more.
Just for a single instant imagine yourself Falstaff, and if there weren’t hundreds of Falstaffs in every generation, to be examples of his ungodly life, he’d be as dead as a doornail to-morrow—imagine yourself Falstaff, and being so, sitting down to write “Henry IV,” or “The Merry Wives.” It’s simply preposterous.
This will put an end to your company's boats coming up here for traffic,--it will kill you deader'n a doornail so far as business is concerned.
Who can read his much-translated masterpiece without unpleasant twinges? Dead as a doornail! So far as I can recollect, there is an infinity of kissing in “Daphnis.” It was an age of sentimentality, and the Greek pastoral ideal, transfused into a Swiss environment of 1810, could not but end in slobber and _Gefühlsduselei._ True it is that shepherds have ample opportunities of sporting with Amaryllis in the shade; opportunities which, to my certain knowledge, they do not neglect.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1961–2018).