Stable Genius Magic Quadrant

[Le Gaucher]

Last edited Mon Jan 8, 2018, 01:55 PM - Edit history (1)

[Egnever]

1. That is not a door nail, in fact it is not a nail at all.

And I could be wrong but I am pretty sure it is dumb as a doorknob not door nail. I am pretty sure it is dead as a door nail.


http://www.dictionary.com/browse/doornail


Doornail

Spell Syllables
Examples Word Origin
noun
1.
a large-headed nail formerly used for strengthening or ornamenting doors.
Idioms
2.
dead as a doornail, stone-dead:
After midnight, the town is dead as a doornail.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dead_as_a_doornail

One plausible explanation is that doors were built using only wood boards and hand-forged nails: the nails were long enough to dead nail the (vertical) wooden panels and (horizontal) stretcher boards securely together, so they would not easily pull apart. This was done by pounding the protruding point of the nail over and down into the wood. A nail that was bent in this fashion (and thus not easily pulled out) was said to be "dead", thus dead as a doornail.

That said you got the trump part exactly right

[Le Gaucher]

2. You are correct

Need to fix the picture

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Thanks for preparing this. The intent and characterizations are good.

(body of post moot now)

[Le Gaucher]

5. fixed it

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. (post now moot) (thanks)

[Le Gaucher]

6. thanks - fixed it

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Looks good! . . . . . . nt