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(See Dead.) Scrooge’s partner is “dead as a door-nail.” (Dickens. Christmas Carol, chap. i.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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