doornail
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doornail
1. A large-headed nail against which the knocker strikes.
2. A large-headed nail used to decorate or strengthen a door.
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In
Dead as a Doornail we get a much clearer picture of the shifter communities--the werewolves and werepanthers.
With the stroke of a keyboard, the middle part of our lives is being extended into a Great Age that, God and the hucksters willing, may not even terminate in "
dead as a doornail."
There will always be those who are racially prejudiced, but legal institutional racism of the kind that existed in the past is
dead as a doornail. Tom Roberts cites three supposed instances of racism as follows: "the gruesome reality, of a black man dragged to his death chained to the back of a track, the rioting and suppression in Cincinnati after a black man was shot and killed by a white policeman, the beating of Rodney King." None of these unfortunate incidents are legitimate examples of racism.
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