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This is now regrettably as dead as a doornail.
It is quite certain that nobody will do it now; it is as dead as a doornail.
My own belief is that social democracy is as dead as a doornail now.
By the time it has gone on for five years, then it must be absolutely conclusive to almost everybody that the marriage is as dead as a doornail.
