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Three years later the Supreme Court overturned the conviction, but at that point the firm was dead as a doornail. The trial judge had improperly instructed the jury that it could convict even if Arthur Andersen honestly and sincerely believed its conduct was lawful, and that was too much for the Supreme Court.

To use his words, you have learned that "all that glitters is not gold." When political stalemate feels "dead as a doornail", or security makes your "hair stand on end", Lebanon manages to "escape the jaws of death", many times.

His plays are so popular and so enduring the words or phrases in them have become common sayings (such as "get your money's worth", "green-eyed monster", or "dead as a doornail").

He coined countless phrases, from ''bated breath'' and ''brave new world'' to ''break the ice'', ''heart of gold'' and ''dead as a doornail'.'.

The place was dead as a doornail and there were loads of empty seats everywhere.

"e ground is sadly, wildlife-wise at any rate, as dead as a doornail.

Others are dead as a doornail within five years," he says.

He's laying deader than a doornail about 50 yards thataway."

Christina's album was dead as a doornail, so she stayed home, with some lame excuse I can't even remember, and that's just the point.

What people in my Bible study group have heard from me over and over is that when we die, we're obliterated, gone, kaput, doornail dead.

The first group believes that the two-state solution is dead as a doornail. It consists of radical Palestinians and radical Israelis on the left who never really accepted the Israeli state in the first place.

IF it's a foregone conclusion, a sorry sight or dead as a doornail, then you are quoting Shakespeare.

There is a thing deader than a doornail, viz., Gillman's Coleridge, Vol.

These tales, which ended in 100-grain Noslers killing game "dead as a doornail," to quote my grandpa Hub, lit my passion for hunting.