"As dead as a herring" nghĩa là gì?

Herring = cá trích. Photo by Ben Wicks on Unsplash

"As dead as a herring"= chết như cá trích -> nghĩa là chết thẳng cẳng.

Ví dụ 
You thought you were as dead as a herring two hours since, and you are all alive and talking now.

I expect as Miss Flora will drop down as dead as a herring, for she doesn't think you're above the hatches. "Varney the Vampire" by Thomas Preskett Prest.

It was all figures—all figures, and to be relied on, and later on, when I put ‘em befo’ the Senate in a speech (bài phát biểu), I was cheered to the echo and the bill (dự luật) killed as dead as a herring.

The first mate now came forward and ordered him to knock off going on that way, when, without speaking he seized hold of one of the windlass bars (thanh chắn gió), and let drive with it at the mate's head, killing him as dead as a herring on the spot!.

Thùy Dương

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