Inert Phrases

Phrases

• A still small voice
• As dead as a dodo
• As dead as a doornail
• As dead as mutton
• Asleep at the switch
• Asleep at the wheel
• Asleep with Jesus
• At the dead of night
• Back from the dead
• Be still my beating heart
• Better dead than red
• Better off dead
• Born 1820 - Still going strong (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• Brain dead
• Bring out your dead
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Chivalry is not dead
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut someone dead
• Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean book)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
• Dead Ringer For Love (Meatloaf song)
• Dead air
• Dead and buried
• Dead and gone
• Dead cat bounce
• Dead cinch
• Dead duck
• Dead easy
• Dead end
• Dead from the neck up
• Dead giveaway
• Dead heads
• Dead heat
• Dead in the water
• Dead issue
• Dead letter
• Dead loss
• Dead man walking
• Dead meat
• Dead men tell no tales
• Dead men's shoes
• Dead of night
• Dead of winter
• Dead on arrival
• Dead on time
• Dead presidents
• Dead reckoning
• Dead ringer
• Dead to rights
• Dead to the world
• Dead white European male (derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation)
• Dead white male
• Dead wood
• Dick and Jane is dead (Encyclopaedia Britannica advertising slogan)
• Domestos kills all known germs - Dead! (Domestos Bleach advertising slogan)

• Down among the dead men
• Drop dead
• Drop dead gorgeous
• Drop dead list
• Drop down dead
• Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
• Fall asleep
• Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
• Flogging a dead horse
• Given up for dead
• Go to a neutral corner
• God is dead (philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche)
• Good and dead
• Half asleep
• Hang by the neck until dead
• He's dead Jim (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking (the opening line of Goodbye To Berlin)
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• I wouldn't be caught dead
• I'm Still Standing (Elton John song)
• In The Still Of The Night (Frank Sinatra song)
• Is there honey still for tea?
• Kicking dead whales down the beach
• Kill stone dead
• Kills bugs dead (Raid advertising slogan)
• Knock 'em dead
• Left for dead
• Let the dead bury the dead
• Like being savaged by a dead sheep
• Loud enough to waken the dead
• More dead than alive
• Neutral ground
• Never speak ill of the dead
• Numbered with the dead
• Over my dead body
• Passive aggressive
• Passive smoking
• Play dead
• Raise the dead
• Roll over and play dead
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
• Still Crazy After All These Years (Paul Simon song)
• Still life (a form of painting in which inanimate objects are the subject)
• Still the One (ABC advertising slogan)
• Still waters run deep
• The Day of the Dead (Horror movie)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (Michael Rennie movie)
• The King is dead, long live the King
• The body is still warm
• The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still (The Beatles song lyric)
• The only good Indian is a dead Indian
• The still small voice of God
• Wanted, dead or alive
• Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? (Carole King song)
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• You're a long time dead