tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69713979202370211.post7673330208265345233..comments2023-11-05T02:19:38.412-05:00Comments on Inspiration, Move Me Brightly...: Wright Run or Wrong Run?Zooomahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17112098438748527228noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69713979202370211.post-49601719380916119392008-08-06T22:40:00.000-04:002008-08-06T22:40:00.000-04:00Q] dead as a doornail?”[A] This is an ancient exp...Q] dead as a doornail?”<BR/><BR/>[A] This is an ancient expression: dating back to 1350, and it also appears in the fourteenth-century work The Vision of Piers Plowman and in Shakespeare’s Henry IV. <BR/><BR/>But why particularly a doornail, rather than just any old nail?<BR/><BR/>The usual reason given is that a doornail was one of the heavy studded nails on the outside of a medieval door, or possibly that the phrase refers to the particularly big one on which the knocker rested. A doornail, because of its size and probable antiquity, would seem dead enough for any proverb; the one on which the knocker sat might be thought particularly dead because of the number of times it had been knocked on the head.Nazz Nomadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03722964855836770177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69713979202370211.post-15483691186195547712008-08-06T21:09:00.000-04:002008-08-06T21:09:00.000-04:00Be careful out there, Zoooma! Running in that kin...Be careful out there, Zoooma! Running in that kind of heat sounds dangerous...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com