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Definition of Deaf as a post
1. Adjective. Totally deaf; unable to hear anything.
Definition of Deaf as a post
1. Adjective. (simile) stone deaf (gloss unable to hear at all) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deaf As A Post
Literary usage of Deaf as a post
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Similes by Frank Jenners Wilstach (1916)
"The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a dog's tooth.
— SHAKESPEARE. Deaf. deaf as a post. — ANON. As deaf as a beetle. — IBID. ..."
2. The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections by Phineas Garrett (1903)
"We are weak and faint and weary, And the sun's low in the west, We have reached
the gates, my darling, Let us tarry here and rest. deaf as a post. ..."
3. The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary by Edward Tregear (1891)
"... deaf as a post. Hawaiian—pou, the name of the side-posts of a Hawaiian house ; (b.)
the post or pillar of a building ; poupou, short of stature, low, ..."
4. Lean's Collectanea by Vincent Stuckey Lean, Julia Lucy Woodward (1903)
"As deaf as a post.—N., FP Ye deaf door posts, could ye not hear ?—R. Crowley,
Select As good to speak to a post.—D. As deaf as a shad.—Sam Slick, Wise Saws. ..."
5. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"... то TALK (or PREACH) то A POST = to talk to deaf ears : hence deaf as a post =
as deaf as may be ; TO RIDE A POST = to copulate ; —TO RUN (or KNOCK) THE ..."
6. The Letters of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens (1880)
"We shall play, between the 20th and the 25th, " A Eoland for an Oliver," " Two
o'Clock in the Morning," and "Deaf as a Post." „ a . ..."
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