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dead last

idiom

Finishing in last place in a competition or ranking, often by a considerable margin to the next to last place finisher or after an exceptionally poor showing or season.


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  1. 01

    beat a dead horse

    To persist or continue far beyond any purpose, interest or reason.

  2. 02

    breathe one's last

    To die.

  3. 03

    Brown bread

    [Cockney slang]dead

  4. 04

    cobbler, keep to your last

    One should not criticise matters outside one's field of expertise; one should mind one's business.

  5. 05

    come back from the dead

    To experience a resurgence after one's productive years are assumed to have ended.

  6. 06

    dead 'n' buried

    Contraction of dead and buried.

  7. 07

    dead air

    An unintended interruption in a broadcast during which nothing is transmitted: a silent period on radio or a silent period with no picture on television.

  8. 08

    dead and buried

    Of an issue, moot, passed, irrelevant, forgotten.

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