[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：絕不可能？Learned dodo. Interesting. Typo：beside dynasours？ -妖妖靈- ♀ (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. -天邊一片白雲- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/10/2022 postreply 14:54:28

• 我原以為渡渡鳥與恐龍一起滅絕了，原來才滅絕幾百年 -移花接木- ♂ (9327 bytes) () 09/10/2022 postreply 14:58:04

• 這個真好。我覺得不用複活，地球會找到自己的平衡。 世界上每天都有滅絕也有進化。 -jianchi9090- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/10/2022 postreply 17:25:34

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

• 恭喜小k。首頁進來，謝謝網管，[One idiom] As dead as a dodo 推薦成功 -梅雨潭- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/11/2022 postreply 19:23:43

• 謝謝譚主！好像裏麵還有文法錯誤。。下次俺灌水一定抱著嚴謹認真的態度！ -kirn- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/12/2022 postreply 09:37:21