Did you know…?
… that ‘dead as a door nail’ takes its origin from the 14th
century carpentry. Back then nails were hand tooled and costly. When an aging
cabin or a barn was torn down, the valuable nails would be salvaged so they could
be reused in later construction.
When building a door however, carpenters often drove the
nail through, then bent it over the other end so it couldn't work its way out
during the repeated opening and closing of the door. When it came time to
salvage the building, these door nails were considered useless, or
"dead" because of the way they were bent.
Today it means obviously, definitely dead.
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