doornail
/dawr-neyl, dohr-/US // ˈdɔrˌneɪl, ˈdoʊr- //UK // (ˈdɔːˌneɪl) //
门钉,门甲,门钉钉子,门窗
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a large-headed nail formerly used for strengthening or ornamenting doors.
Examples
Bethany is dumb as a doornail, and seems to bore Don about as much as his high-profile clients do.
Otherwise, slavish adaptations–being, punctiliously observant adaptations–are likely to be a dead doornail.
The rat's dead as a doornail, and now all of us have got things to do, but fast!
And when the troll saw the sun he burst—and was as dead as a doornail!
He had been a great King but he was deader than a doornail now.
"Say, it's been deader'n a doornail around here for a week," confessed the Meadow Street youth.
A loud crack was heard, and she was seen to spring up and fall back upon the snow, dead as a doornail.
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