D
Idioms beginning with "D"
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[dead ringer] {n. phr.}
A person who strongly resembles someone else.
Charlie is a dead ringer for his uncle.
[dead set against] {adj. phr.}
Totally opposed to someone or something.
Jack is dead set against the idea of marriage, which upsets Mary.
[dead tired] {adj. phr.}, {informal}
Very tired; exhausted; worn out.
She was dead tired at the end of the day's work.
Compare: [DEAD ON ONE'S FEET].
[dead to rights] {adv. phr.}, {informal}
Without a chance of escaping blame; proven wrong.
Mother had Bob dead to rights, because she caught him with his hand in the cookie jar.
The police caught the man dead to rights.
[dead to the world] {adj. phr.}, {informal}
1. Fast asleep.
Tim went to bed very late and was still dead to the world at 10 o'clock this morning.
2. As if dead; unconscious.
* /Tom was hit on the head by a baseball and was dead to the world for […]
[dead-end] {n.}
A street closed at one end; a situation that leads nowhere.
Jim drove into a dead-end street and had to back out.
Mary was in a dead-end job.
[dead-end] {v.}
To not continue normally but end in a closure (said of streets).
Our street dead-ends on the lake.
[deadbeat] {n.}, {slang}
A person who never pays his debts and who has a way of getting things free that others have to pay for.
You'll never collect from Joe — he's a deadbeat.
[deadhead] {n.}, {slang}
An excessively dull or boring person.
You'll never get John to tell a joke — he's a deadhead.
[deadline] {n.}
A final date by which a project, such as a term paper, is due.
The deadline for the papers on Shakespeare is November 10.