dead on arrival

idiom

: having died before getting to a hospital, emergency room, etc.

The victim was dead on arrival at the hospital.

—often used figuratively

Some are saying that any new tax proposal would be dead on arrival.

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That meant the proposal would have been dead on arrival in the Democrat-majority Senate. —

Rebecca Picciotto, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2024 So Ken, legislative fights over the border are heating up, and house speaker Mike Johnson has warned that a Senate bipartisan border and immigration deal is likely dead on arrival in the house. —

Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024 And a reboot in 2021, Dexter: New Blood, arrived dead on arrival, according to Rolling Stone’s review. —

Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2024 With that said, the ideas in question are almost dead on arrival anyway because of the film’s dramatically inert structure. —

Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for dead on arrival

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