And there it is hanging on my wall, dead as a doornail.

The damned thing was dead as a doornail, just didn't know it.

All the television pundits said I was dead as a doornail.

By all rights she should be deader than a doornail now.

She never even thought, are you a dead doornail?

I for one think he's deader'n a doornail, but people keep seeing him all the time.

There we were, messing around with his things, and all the time he was dead as a doornail in Paris.

"Aren't they saying that was Austin, and he's dead as a doornail.

She said the guy looked dead as a doornail."

Then we find the fish floating on the pond, dead as a doornail."

"The prospect of moving this highway, I think it can be safely said, is dead as a doornail."

I settled on getting raised from the dead, since a big part of me still felt dead as a doornail.

The Son of God was as dead as a doornail.

Well, maybe not quite as dead as a doornail.

"I would have called the man myself if our phone wasn't as dead as a doornail since the heavy rain yesterday."

"Dead as a doornail; his poor head's bashed in something shocking!"

Or rather, lay there dead as a doornail.

Benny went on eating; he was as deaf as a doornail.

All my other stories, which Allie never tired of hearing until she was dead as a doornail, involved amateurs.

"Dead as a doornail once they started down.

Maybe the management had been lucky: maybe they didn't know a good doorman from a dead doornail.

Jardine had better be dead as the proverbial doornail.

Dead as a doornail , Elijah laughed again, correcting his friend.

"As a doornail," Ryan replied, jacking in a fresh round.

"Dead as a doornail," said Ruby, moving into view beside Random.