Word: doornails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ends of the muscles, nerves, sinews and bone of one piece matching a similar ar rangement in the other." His characters "sink their teeth" into "weighty problems," accept things "lock, stock and barrel," and come to clanging conclusions like: "The old order of things was as dead as a doornail." After an hour or two of this, who could be blamed for edging away from the bar, despite Farrell's undoubted substance and seriousness, and going inside for some dinner? Anything but leg of lamb...
...fact, the council's new nonpolitical, efficient, relaxed mood typifies the way Rosovsky wants to run the Faculty. "There hasn't been a single issue in my administration in which I've been concerned about old politics. It's dead as a doornail. If the Faculty becomes political. I will have failed...