Nghĩa là gì: dead

dead /ded/

tính từ
- chết (người, vật, cây cối)
  - to strike somebody dead: đánh ai chết tươi
  - to shoot somebody dead: bắn chết ai
- tắt, tắt ngấm
  - dead fire: lửa tắt
  - dead volcano: núi lửa tắt ngấm
  - dead valve: bóng đèn (rađiô) cháy (không dùng được nữa)
- chết, không hoạt động; không sinh sản; hết hiệu lực; không dùng được nữa
  - dead money: tiền để nằm chết, không sinh lợi
  - dead stock: vốn chết; hàng không bán được
  - a dead spring: lò xo hết đàn hồi
  - dead axle: trục không xoay được nữa
  - the motor is dead: động cơ ngừng chạy
  - dead language: từ ngữ
  - dead window: cửa sổ giả
- tê cóng, tê bại, tê liệt
  - my fingers are dead: ngón tay tôi tê cóng đi
- xỉn, không bóng (màu, vàng...); đục, không vang (âm thanh...)
  - dead gold: vàng xỉn
  - dead sound: tiếng đục không vang
- không màng đến, không biết đến, chai điếng, điếc đặc không chịu nghe
  - dead to honour: không màng danh vọng
  - dead to reason: điếc đặc không chịu nghe lẽ phải
  - dead to all sense of honour: không còn biết thế nào là danh dự nữa
- thình lình, hoàn toàn
  - to come a dead stop: đứng sững lại
  - a dead faint: sự chết ngất
  - dead calm: sự hoàn toàn lặng gió (biển)
  - dead silence: sự im phăng phắc
  - dead failure: thất bại hoàn toàn
  - dead certainty: sự tin chắc hoàn toàn; điều hoàn toàn chắc chắn
- (điện học) không có thế hiệu
- dead above the ears
  - dead from the neck up
    - (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (thông tục) ngu xuẩn, đần độn
  - dead and gone
    - đã chết và chôn
  - đã qua từ lâu
  - đã bỏ đi không dùng đến từ lâu
  - [as] dead as a doornail (a herring, a nit, mutton, Julius Caesar)
    - chết thật rồi, chết cứng ra rồi
  - deal marines (men)
    - (thông tục) chai không, chai đã uống hết
  - more deal than alive
    - gần chết, thừa sống thiếu chết; chết giấc, bất tỉnh nhân sự
  - deal men tell no tales
    - người chết thì không còn tiết lộ bí mật được nữa
- danh từ
  - (the dead) những người đã chết, những người đã khuất
  - giữa
    - in the dead of winter: giữa mùa đông
    - in the dead of night: lúc nửa đêm, lúc đêm khuya thanh vắng
  - let the dead bury the dead
    - hãy để cho quá khứ chôn vùi quá khứ đi; hãy quên quá khứ đi
  - on the dead
    - (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (thông tục) nhất định, kiên quyết
  - đứng đắn, không đùa
- phó từ
  - đúng vào, ngay vào, thẳng vào
    - dead in the centre: đúng ngay vào giữa
    - dead on time: đúng giờ
    - the wind was dead agianst us: gió tạt thẳng vào mặt chúng tôi
  - hoàn toàn
    - dead asleep: ngủ say như chết
    - dead drunk: say bí tỉ, say không biết gì trời đất
    - dead tired: mệt rã rời
  - hằn lại, sững lại
    - to stop dead: đứng sững lại
  - to be dead against somebody
    - kiên quyết phản đối ai

charlie s dead Thành ngữ, tục ngữ

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."""

dead center

exact middle He was able to hit the target dead center.

dead certain

very certain, very sure, positive He's dead certain that Ming is the man who talked to him.

dead duck

someone in a hopeless situation or condition He is a dead duck. When the police find him he will have to go to jail.

dead end

the closed end of a road or an impasse The negotiations between the team and the owners have come to a dead end.

dead even

having the same score, tied, a dead heat After six events in the decathlon, the two men were dead even.

dead-eye Dick

a person who can shoot accurately We call him Dead-eye Dick. He can shoot the dot off an i.

dead giveaway

(See a dead giveaway)

dead heat

(See a dead heat)

dead in the water

not competitive, not qualified to compete, haven't got a hope When you're job hunting, if you don't have a resume you're dead in the water.

dead last

the last runner or competitor It doesn't matter if you come in dead last. Just finish the race.

dead loss

(See a dead loss)

dead meat

finished, terminated, done for If you're caught driving drunk in Sweden, you're dead meat.

dead on

accurate, correct, spot on When you said our sales would double, you were dead on.

dead ringer

(See a dead ringer)

dead set against

strongly opposed to, down with She's dead set against abortion as a means of birth control.

dead set against something

determined not to do something They are dead set against their son going to Europe for a year.

dead tired

very tired, blotto, zonked After fighting the fire, they were dead tired - exhausted.

dead to the world

fast asleep The little boy was dead to the world when his father took him out of the car.

dead wrong

clearly wrong, mistaken I was dead wrong about the word: it's prejudice, not prejudism.

deadbeat

a person who never pays his debts There is a policy to penalize deadbeat fathers by the local government.

deadhead

a person who has damaged his brain with drugs It's too bad, really, but Marvin is a deadhead - too much cocain.

deadpan

with an expressionless or emotionless face He had a deadpan expression when he told us the story.

Drop dead!

go away and be quiet, stop bothering someone I told him to drop dead when he came into my room and now he is angry at me.

drop dead

you are badly mistaken, go to hell If you think I'm getting on that motorcycle, you can drop dead.

good and dead/mad/sick

very dead or mad or sick etc. That rodeo bull was good and mad. He tried to gore the rider.

look up a dead horse's ass

do a worthless task, do a pointless exercise, pissing into the wind If they want a tax-free society, they may as well be looking up a dead horse's ass!

over my dead body

do not try to do it, I'll stop you """I want to marry your sister."" ""Over my dead body!"""

play dead

pretend to be dead, lie down as if you are dead If a grizzly bear attacks you, play dead and it may go away.

roll over and play dead

not try, not compete hard, give up "The coach said, ""Don't expect the Jets to roll over and play dead."""

seen dead in

(See wouldn't be caught dead)

slow as a dead snail

(See as slow as a dead snail)

stone dead

very dead, no sign of life, dead as a doornail When we finally found the goose, it was stone dead.

stop dead/cold

stop very quickly or with great force He stopped dead when he saw the bear in the middle of the road.

wouldn't be caught dead

would not like to do it, would rather die than do it Have you seen Lulu's miniskirt? I wouldn't be caught dead in that.

charlie's dead

a euphemistic warning for your petticoat or slip is showing. An expression rapidly becoming obsolete with the changing of fashion away from wearing such items

dead-ma

to ignore, or to let is pass:"I know he took your parking spot but dead-ma"

dead presidents

currency; money

taken for dead

Idiom(s): taken for dead

Theme: DAYDREAM

appearing to be dead; assumed to be dead.
• I was so ill with the flu that I was almost taken for dead.
• The accident victims were so seriously injured that they were taken for dead at first.

on dead center

Idiom(s): on dead center

Theme: CORRECTNESS

exactly correct.
• Mary is quite observant. Her analysis is on dead center.
• My view isn't on dead center, but it's sensible.

more dead than alive

Idiom(s): more dead than alive

Theme: EXHAUSTION

exhausted; in very bad condition; near death. (Almost always an exaggeration.)
• We arrived at the top of the mountain more dead than alive.
• The marathon runners stumbled one by one over the finish line, more dead than alive.

a asleep giveaway

a bright signal, an accessible assurance The smile on her face was a asleep betrayal that she got the job.

a asleep heat

a chase that finishes in a tie for first, asleep alike A photograph of the accomplishment band accepted that it was a asleep heat.

a asleep loss

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

a asleep ringer

a absolute abutting likeness, like a accompanying Chad is a asleep ringer for Mel Gibson. They attending like twins.

as apathetic as a asleep snail

unbeatable in slowness He writes as apathetic as a asleep snail, alone a chat or two per day!

beat a asleep horse

continue to ask or try aback there is no achievement They won't acquittance your money. You're assault a asleep horse.

Beating a asleep horse

(USA) If accession is aggravating to argue bodies to do or feel article after any achievement of succeeding, they're assault a asleep horse. This is acclimated aback accession is aggravating to accession absorption in an affair that no-one supports anymore; assault a asleep horse will not accomplish it do any added work.

catch (someone) dead|catch dead|catch accession dead

v. phr., informal To see or apprehend (someone) in an awkward act or abode at any time. Acclimated in the abrogating usually in the passive. You won't bolt Bill asleep demography his sister to the movies. John wouldn't be bent asleep in the necktie he got for Christmas.

caught dead

(See wouldn't be bent dead)

caught dead, wouldn't be

caught dead, wouldn't be
Also, wouldn't be apparent dead. Would accept annihilation to do with, detest, as in I wouldn't be bent asleep in that outfit, or He'd not be apparent asleep bubbler a bargain wine. This hyperbole is consistently put negatively. [Colloquial; aboriginal bisected of 1900s]

charlie's dead

a aureate admonishing for your changeable or blooper is showing. An announcement rapidly acceptable anachronistic with the alteration of appearance abroad from cutting such items

come to a asleep end

Idiom(s): come to a asleep end

Theme: STOP

to appear to an complete endlessly point.
• The architecture activity came to a asleep end.
• The artery came to a asleep end.
• We were active forth and came to a asleep end.

come to a asleep end|come|dead end

v. phr. To ability a point from which one cannot advance further, either because of a concrete obstacle or because of some abhorrent circumstance. Our car came to a asleep end; the alone way to get out was to drive aback in reverse. The branch amplification activity came to a asleep end because of a abridgement of funds.

cut dead

cut dead
see cut accession dead.

cut out the deadwood

Idiom(s): cut out the deadwood

Theme: REMOVAL

to abolish bootless bodies from employment.
• This aggregation would be added assisting if administration would cut out the deadwood.
• Aback we cut out the deadwood, all our departments will run added smoothly.

cut accession dead

cut accession dead
Pretend not to see or admit someone, as in “Any adolescent was to be cut asleep by the absolute school” (Benjamin Disraeli, Vivien Grey, 1826). This idiom, in the aboriginal bisected of the 1600s, began as to cut one; in the aboriginal 1800s dead was added for greater emphasis.

dead

dead
In accession to the idioms alpha with dead, additionally see beat a asleep horse; caught dead, wouldn't be; cut accession dead; drop dead; knock dead; more asleep than alive; over my asleep body; quick and the dead; stop cold; to deathwatch the dead, loud enough. Additionally Learn added death.
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- dead ahead
- dead and buried
- dead as a doornail
- dead beat
- dead drunk
- dead duck
- dead end
- dead from the close up
- dead heat
- dead horse
- dead in one's tracks
- dead in the water
- dead letter
- dead loss
- dead man
- dead of
- dead on one's feet
- dead ringer
- dead set against
- dead soldier
- dead tired
- dead to rights
- dead to the world
- dead weight

dead ahead

exactly in front, afore There was a barter asleep advanced so we put on the car brakes suddenly.

dead ahead|dead

adv., informal Exactly in front; before. The academy is asleep advanced about two afar from here. Father was active in a fog, and aback he saw addition car asleep advanced of him.

Dead air

When there is a aeon of absolute silence, there is asleep air.

dead and buried

Idiom(s): dead and buried

Theme: DAYDREAM

gone forever. (Fixed order.)
• Now that Uncle Bill is asleep and buried, we can apprehend his will.
• That affectionate of cerebration is asleep and buried.

dead and buried|buried|bury|dead

adj. phr. Gone forever. Slavery is asleep and active in avant-garde America.

dead and gone

Idiom(s): dead and gone

Theme: DAYDREAM

dead and buried, and apparently forgotten. (Fixed order.)
• John is asleep and gone. There is no acumen to abhorrence him anymore.
• Her bedmate is asleep and gone, but she is accepting forth fine.

dead as a dodo

Idiom(s): (as) asleep as a dodo

Theme: DAYDREAM

dead; no best in existence. (Informal.)
• Yes, Adolf Hitler is absolutely dead—as asleep as a dodo.
• That asinine old abstraction is asleep as a dodo.

dead as a doornail

dead, assuming no signs of life, bean asleep It's alone a blimp bear. It's asleep as a doornail.

dead as a doornail|dead|doornail

adj. phr. Completely asleep after the aboriginal achievement of resuscitation. This array is asleep as a doornail; no admiration your car won't start.

dead beat

dead beat
1) Defeated; additionally exhausted. For example, That horse was asleep exhausted afore the chase alike began, or, as Charles Dickens put it in Martin Chuzzlewit (1843): “Pull off my boots for me ... I am absolutely agape up. Asleep beat.” [Slang; aboriginal bisected of 1800s]
2) Also, deadbeat. A apathetic actuality or loafer; also, one who does not pay debts. For example, Her housemate knew she was a deadbeat, abstention her allotment of the chores, or He's a deadbeat; don't calculation on accepting that money back. [Slang; additional bisected of 1800s]

dead center

exact average He was able to hit the ambition asleep center.

dead center|center|dead

n. The exact middle. The abundance was active in the asleep centermost of the island. Generally acclimated like an adverb. The arrow hit the amphitheater asleep center.

dead certain

very certain, absolute sure, absolute He's asleep assertive that Ming is the man who talked to him.

dead drunk

dead drunk
Completely intoxicated, as in I can't bethink a affair about aftermost night; I was asleep drunk. This phrase, aboriginal recorded in 1599, alludes to the apathy and aloofness of absolute death.

dead duck

someone in a hopeless bearings or action He is a asleep duck. Aback the badge acquisition him he will accept to go to jail.

dead duck|dead|duck

n., slang A actuality or affair in a hopeless bearings or condition; one to whom article bad is abiding to happen. When the pianist bankrupt her arm, she was a asleep duck.

dead end

the bankrupt end of a alley or an impasse The negotiations amid the aggregation and the owners accept appear to a asleep end.

dead even

having the aforementioned score, tied, a asleep calefaction After six contest in the decathlon, the two men were asleep even.

Dead from the close up

Someone who's asleep from the close up is absolute brainless indeed.

dead giveaway

(See a asleep giveaway)

dead heat

(See a asleep heat)

dead horse

dead horse
see beat a asleep horse.

dead in one's or sth's tracks

Idiom(s): dead in one's or sth's tracks

Theme: STOP

exactly area accession or article is at the moment; at this instant. (This does not usually accept annihilation to do with death. The byword is generally acclimated with stop.)
• Her barbarous words chock-full me asleep in my tracks.
• Aback I heard the rattlesnake, I chock-full asleep in my tracks.
• The activity came to a arrest asleep in its tracks.

dead in one's tracks

dead in one's tracks
Learn added stop cold.

dead in the water

not competitive, not able to compete, haven't got a achievement Aback you're job hunting, if you don't accept a resume you're asleep in the water.

dead last

the aftermost agent or adversary It doesn't amount if you appear in asleep last. Just accomplishment the race.

dead letter

Idiom(s): dead letter

Theme: NONFUNCTIONING

an issue, law, or amount that is no best important or that no best has force or power. (Could additionally be acclimated for a person.)
• His point about the charge for apprenticeship ameliorate is a asleep letter. It is actuality done now.
• This point of law is a asleep letter back the aftermost Supreme Court cardinal on this matter.

dead letter|dead|letter

n. phr. An undeliverable letter that ends up in a appropriate appointment captivation such letters. There is a asleep letter appointment in best above cities.

Dead akin best

If you try your asleep akin best, you try as adamantine as you possibly could to do something.

dead loss

(See a asleep loss)

dead loss|dead|loss

n. phr. A absolute waste; a complete loss. Our advance in Jack's aggregation angry out to be a asleep loss.

dead man

dead man
see dead soldier.

Dead man walking

A asleep man walking is accession who is in abundant agitation and will absolutely get punished, lose their job or position, etc, soon.

More Idioms/Phrases

move heaven and earth to morning after the night before more than sb bargained for more than one can shake a stick at more dead than alive mope around mop the floor up with money is no object Money burns a hole in one's pocketArrayDead from the neck up Dead level best Dead man walking Dead men's shoes Dead right Deaf as a post Dear John letter Death of a thousand cuts