1.   It is as dead as phlogiston and the universal aether.

2.   She looked dead as a doornail.

3.   The campaign was as dead as a dodo.

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

5.   And thoughts that were thought a long time ago are as dead as old Squeez-Ee detergent bottles, and as slow to biodegrade.

6.   It will be as dead as the Squeez-Ee files.

7.   In the second half, Oxford brought on winger, Chrissy Allen in the hope of livening things up, but the game was as dead as a dodo.

8.   As a result, The Streak is as dead as The King.

9.   Baseball in America is as dead as Amelia Earhart, or just as lost.