Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense.

I realized I'd been so caught up in my new vampirehood that I hadn't noticed Christmas had come and gone.

Racing in Delaware was so dead and buried you could have put a toe tag on it, Mr. Drucker said.

Unearthed in Lachish, a Canaanite city state in the second millennium BCE and the second most important city in the kingdom of Judah, the comb suggests that humans have endured lice for thousands of years and that even the wealthiest were not spared the grim infestations.