stone dead

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Utterlydead.1886October –1887January,H[enry] Rider Haggard,She: A History of Adventure, London:Longmans, Green, and Co., published1887,→OCLC:'I congratulate you; it was a lovely shot, and mine were vile.' We got out of the boat and ran to the buck, which was shot through the spine andstone dead.1969,Monty Python, “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, inDead Parrot sketch:[Owner]:No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage![Mr. Praline]:The plumage don't enter into it. It'sstone dead.

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