dead as Hectorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

dead as Hector (not comparable)

1. (simile, dated) Unquestionably dead.

   Synonyms: dead as a doornail; see also Thesaurus:dead

   • 1823 July, “Scottish Novels of the Second Class”, in The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, volume 13, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Company, page 4:

     […] if a man, on coming up to his old friend’s cottage, finds the owner staring him in the face over a stile, all the while as dead as Hector,—still the answer is,—“Why, to be sure, all this is rather absurd; but then, Sir, consider the power.”

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Further reading

• “...as/than Hector” under “hector n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present