dead tree edition

bark up the wrong tree

To take the wrong approach to a situation; to follow a false lead; to attempt to solve a problem using mistaken assumptions about its true nature.

beat a dead horse

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

Brown bread

[Cockney slang]dead

Christmas tree bill

A bill consisting of many riders that attracts many, often unrelated, floor amendments, which may provide special benefits to various groups or interests.

come back from the dead

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

dead 'n' buried

Contraction of dead and buried.

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.

dead and buried

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