dead as ditch-water

English

Adjective

dead as ditch-water (not comparable)

  1. (simile) Unquestionably dead.
    • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎:
      "Do you go in if you like." But I merely shook my head, my excitement was as dead as ditch-water, and my distaste for the prolongation of my mortal span had come back upon me more strongly than ever.

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