It just means “very cute.”

Definition of (as) dead as a doornail chiefly US, informal. —used to stress that someone or something is dead The old captain was dead as a doornail. —often used figuratively The negotiations are as dead as a doornail. The deal is dead as a doornail.

From Middle English ded as dore-nail. This was done by pounding the protruding point of the nail over and down into the wood. A nail that was bent in this fashion (and thus not easily pulled out) was said to be “dead”, thus dead as a doornail.

Doornails are very large nails that, in early times, were used to strengthen doors. Workers hit the nails into doors and the sharp end came out the other side. The worker then flattened the sharp metal with a hammer to make each nail secure. Doornails were once used to strengthen — and sometimes to decorate — doors.

For hundreds, if not thousands, of years it has been accepted as an axiom that inanimate objects, such as nails, are dead. This self-evident truth has been expressed ln the phrase: “dead as a doomail.” Thus, someone who is unequivocally dead is said to be “deadas a doornail.”

adj. a no longer alive. b (as n.) the dead. 2 not endowed with life; inanimate.

To consume a great deal of someone’s food: “Mrs. Baker complained that her three teenagers were eating her out of house and home.”

Word historians suggest that ‘dickens’ is a euphemism for The Beast, used because it sounds like the once-common alternative of ‘devilkins’. The Devil (artist’s impression; no photo available). So when you exclaim ‘What the Dickens?’ , you’re really saying ‘What the devil?’

Slept like a log It is thought to have come from the early pioneer days in North America when lumberjacking was popular. These burly men would cut down trees with basic tools, such as band saws. The trees were then cut into big logs.

When you say that two people are like ‘chalk and cheese’, you are suggesting that the two are very different from each other; they have nothing in common. The expression, which has the same meaning as ‘apples and oranges’, can be used with things as well. They’re like chalk and cheese.