[One idiom] As dead as a dodo

"The deal is as dead as a dodo."

Dodo is the other most famous and documented species that has extincted besides dynasours.

If something is said to be as dead a dodo, it is not working, obsolete, or unavailable. It refers to the flightless and now extinct bird that was taken by sailors to their ship and kept alive for fresh meat. The Portuguese named the birds doudo, meaning stupid. Dodos were caught and eaten into extinction during the 17th Century. Thereafter, the phrase passed into the English language.

Dodo got it's fame largely due to the sorry told by 'Alice in the Wonderland".

 

 

 

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• Very good. Question: should we revive the extinct species? -前川- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/10/2022 postreply 10:25:32

• such as the Dodo, Mammoth... -前川- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/10/2022 postreply 10:28:39

• With human being, there are two schools of thinking -kirn- ♀ (109 bytes) () 09/10/2022 postreply 10:30:26

• Yes. I'd like to see a live mammoth. It says that some scien -前川- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/10/2022 postreply 10:44:53

• scientists are working on it. -前川- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/10/2022 postreply 10:45:28

• 中文：绝不可能？Learned dodo. Interesting. Typo：beside dynasours？ -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/10/2022 postreply 11:04:09

• Good catch! I deleted a double the, and corrected besides:)) -kirn- ♀ (73 bytes) () 09/10/2022 postreply 11:11:13

• very interesting one. -天边一片白云- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/10/2022 postreply 14:54:28

• 我原以为渡渡鸟与恐龙一起灭绝了，原来才灭绝几百年 -移花接木- ♂ (9327 bytes) () 09/10/2022 postreply 14:58:04

• 这个真好。我觉得不用复活，地球会找到自己的平衡。 世界上每天都有灭绝也有进化。 -jianchi9090- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/10/2022 postreply 17:25:34

• 渡渡鸟 -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/11/2022 postreply 12:32:54

• 恭喜小k。首页进来，谢谢网管，[One idiom] As dead as a dodo 推荐成功 -梅雨潭- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/11/2022 postreply 19:23:43

• 谢谢谭主！好像里面还有文法错误。。下次俺灌水一定抱着严谨认真的态度！ -kirn- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/12/2022 postreply 09:37:21