Finally! A few signs of Spring.

killed em deader than a door nail. I thought and I thought. Guess we'll have to leave the answer to OldFox.

But I can't leave without a short door story.................. What did the farmer say when his coon dog got his tail caught in the screen door?


It won't be long now.

 

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-dea1.htm

It's a term that the old timers always used when I was growing up. It didn't make any sense, but you always knew exactly what they meant when they used it.

 

Very well put old timer. I also remember the old timers saying that. From your worldwidewords information read below. This was used on doors to strengthen them and keep people from getting hurt on the protruding nail end.
If you hammer a nail through a piece of timber and then flatten the end over on the inside so it can’t be removed again (a technique called clinching), the nail is said to be dead,

 

My mom always used this term when we were growing up,especially if I came home late.