Queen Anne's dead 成语

a dead giveaway

a clear signal, an obvious sign The smile on her face was a dead giveaway that she got the job.

a dead heat

a race that finishes in a tie for first, dead even A photograph of the finish line proved that it was a dead heat.

a dead loss

a complete loss, a write-off (see write it off) The spoiled meat was a dead loss. We couldn't eat any of it.

a dead ringer

a very close likeness, like a twin Chad is a dead ringer for Mel Gibson. They look like twins.

as slow as a dead snail

unbeatable in slowness He writes as slow as a dead snail, only a word or two per day!

beat a dead horse

continue to ask or try when there is no hope They won't refund your money. You're beating a dead horse.

caught dead

(See wouldn't be caught dead)

dead ahead

exactly in front, before There was a truck dead ahead so we put on the car brakes suddenly.

dead as a doornail

dead, showing no signs of life, stone dead It's only a stuffed bear. It's dead as a doornail.

dead-cat bounce

very little recovery after a loss, not coming up again "The broker said, ""It was a dead-cat bounce. Stocks remain low."""

Queen Anne is dead

A acerb byword said in acknowledgment to anachronous news. A: "Did you apperceive that Kelly is accepting a divorce?" B: "Oh please, that happened months ago. Did you apperceive that Queen Anne is dead?"Learn more: Anne, dead, queen

Queen Anne's dead

acclimated humorously or ironically to advance that a allotment of declared ‘news’ is in actuality stale, or added broadly that a being who says article is artlessly advertence the accessible or restating a arid or accustomed truth. informal The announcement is aboriginal recorded in 1798 , by which time Queen Anne had absolutely been asleep for 84 years; but there is affirmation of an beforehand version, ‘Queen Elizabeth is dead’, from the 1730s. 2005 Liverpool Daily Echo ‘McFadden's gone accomplished the three French players there’, said Lawrenson , who can additionally acquaint us that Queen Anne is dead, night follows day and bears defecate in the woods. Learn more: dead, queen

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