No longer alive or existing
To be extinct
To not be found
To be obsolete/outdated
Dead as a doornail
When my dad finds out that I have lost the mobile phone, I am as dead as a dodo!
The railway minister will be as dead as a dodo when this sting operation is released by the news agency.
I purchased a tee shirt last week for a whopping amount and it is already falling apart. The store where I purchased it is as dead as a dodo.
The police force is on to him and very soon he will be as dead as a dodo.
When the underworld don was caught we all though he would be as dead as a dodo but 10 years later he is still operating from his prison cell.
There is no origin for this idiom
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Common phrase that has a specific meaning.