coattails

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As even doornails must know by now, the murderer in Ackroyd is the narrator, a genial village doctor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those two eighty-year-old gents in chinos on the Phillips courts at 7:45 on this brilliant Sunday morn: They�re happily trading forehands, but they�re dying that the Sox are now dead as doornails.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dick Hurdle's 'Jackie' and Bert Little's 'Prince' are dead as doornails.

From Quill's Window by McCutcheon, George Barr