Dead Eye Dick

I asked Bard the following:

Can you provide a list of twenty colloquial expressions that involve the word "dead".

Here is what Bard provided 

• Dead tired: Exhausted beyond measure.

• Dead ringer: An exact duplicate of someone or something.

• Dead serious: Utterly serious, not joking.

• Dead on arrival (DOA): Arriving in a state of being unusable or non-functional.

• Drop dead gorgeous: Exceptionally beautiful or attractive.

• Dead in the water: A failed or hopeless idea or situation.

• Laugh yourself to death: Find something so funny you nearly lose your breath.

• Bored to death: Extremely bored.

• Scared to death: Utterly terrified.

• Worked to death: Overworked and exhausted.

• Freezing to death: Extremely cold.

• Hot as death: Extremely hot.

• Beat dead horses: Discuss or dwell on a topic that is past its prime and no longer productive.

I've never heard the expression "hot as death", instead "hot as hell" is far more common. I asked Bard for a further twenty expressions but several did not involve the word "dead" at all which was odd. However, here are the expressions it provided that did contain the key word:

• Dead as a doornail: Completely lifeless or unresponsive.

• Dead man walking: Someone in imminent danger or about to experience a significant downfall.

• Deadpan humor: Dry, understated humor delivered without emotion.

• A dead loss: Someone or something completely useless or without value.

• Dead wrong: Absolutely mistaken or incorrect.

• Hit a dead end: Reach a point of no progress or advancement.

• Stuck dead in the water: Completely immobilized or unable to proceed.

• Sleep like the dead: Sleep very soundly and uninterrupted.

• A dead-letter deal: An agreement or promise that is no longer valid or enforceable.

• A dead giveaway: Something that makes something else obvious or easily guessed.

• Work oneself to death: To work excessively and exhaust oneself completely.

• Deader than disco: Completely out of date or irrelevant.

• A dead battery: A battery that is completely drained and unusable.

• Dead quiet: Completely silent or devoid of sound.

I had to remind Bard about the term "dead captain" and this was the response:

You're absolutely right! "Dead captain" can also refer to an empty bottle that once contained alcohol, particularly hard liquor like rum, whiskey, or vodka. It plays on the image of a ship's captain, once the powerful leader directing the course, now reduced to an empty vessel himself. This meaning is often used playfully or humorously among friends or in casual settings. It's a clever and evocative metaphor, conveying the finality of an emptied bottle and the potential for good times enjoyed (and perhaps overindulged).

There are many other phrases involving the word "dead" including dead rubber, dead duck, dead head and so on. The adjective "dead" is used widely in the sense of "exactly", "completely" or "absolutely" as in dead centre, dead on, dead wrong, dead against, dead set, dead sure etc.