Meaning: dodo

'dəʊdəʊn.
someone whose style is out of fashionextinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons

(as) dead as a dodo Idiom, Proverb

go the way of the dodo

become extinct like the dodo bird, die off If we don't protect our language, it will go the way of the dodo.

dead as a dodo

Idiom(s): (as) dead as a dodo

Theme: DAYDREAM

dead; no longer in existence. (Informal.)
• Yes, Adolf Hitler is really dead—as dead as a dodo.
• That silly old idea is dead as a dodo.

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see under dead as a doornail.

(as) asleep as a dodo

Outdatedor unpopular. The "dodo" is an abolished bird. Although accepted in the 1970s, disco music is as asleep as a airhead today.Learn more: dead, dodo

*dead as a dodo

and *dead as a doornail; deader than a doornaildead; no best in existence. (*Also: as ~.) That asinine old abstraction is asleep as a dodo. When I approved to alpha my car this morning, I apparent that the array was deader than a doornail.Learn more: dead, dodo

dead as a dodo

BRITISHIf article is as dead as a dodo, it is no best animate or popular. The adopted barter bazaar was as asleep as a dodo. Note: The airhead was a ample flightless bird that lived on the islands of Mauritius and Réunion. It became abolished in the backward 17th aeon as a aftereffect of hunting and the abolition of its nests by pigs acceptance to settlers on the islands. Learn more: dead, dodo

dead as a (or the) dodo

1 no best alive. 2 no best effective, valid, or interesting. informal The name dodo comes from Portuguese duodo acceptation ‘simpleton’. It was activated to the ample flightless bird of Mauritius because the bird had no abhorrence of man and so was calmly killed, actuality bound wiped out by visiting European sailors. The dodo's fate has fabricated it accepted for article that is continued asleep and the name has been acclimated metaphorically for an old-fashioned, stupid, or benighted being back the 19th century. 2000 John Caughie Television Drama The already affable ancestors hour is now as asleep as a dodo. Learn more: dead, dodo

(as) asleep as a/the ˈdodo

(informal) no best in existence; actual old-fashioned: Old business practices are as asleep as a airhead in the computer age.The airhead was a ample bird that could not fly. It is now abolished (= it no best exists).Learn more: dead, dodo

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