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dead pedal
A slow moving vehicle.
Better pass that eighteen wheeler, Jack; it's a dead pedal.
dead ringer
A person who strongly resembles someone else.
Charlie is a dead ringer for his uncle.
dead set against
Totally opposed to someone or something.
Jack is dead set against the idea of marriage, which upsets Mary.
dead tired
Very tired; exhausted; worn out.
She was dead tired at the end of the day's work.
dead to rights
Without a chance of escaping blame; proven wrong.
Mother had Bob dead to rights, because she caught him with his hand in the cookie jar.
The police caught the man dead to rights.
dead to the world
Fast asleep.
Tim went to bed very late and was still dead to the world at 10 o'clock this morning.
As if dead; unconscious.
Tom was hit on the head by a baseball and was dead to the world for two hours.
dead wood
Люди или вещи, которые больше не являются нужными или полезными.
The new manager wants to reduce costs by cutting out the dead wood.
Новое руководство хочет сократить расходы, избавившись от никчемных людей.
dead-end
A street closed at one end; a situation that leads nowhere.
Jim drove into a dead-end street and had to back out.
Mary was in a dead-end job.
To not continue normally but end in a closure (said of streets).
Our street dead-ends on the lake.