| dab hand at something | If you're a dab hand at something, you're very good at doing it. Why don't you call Suzy? She's a dab hand at organizing barbecues. |
| put a damper on | If someone or something puts a damper on a situation or event, they make it less successful or enjoyable. The party was going great until the neighbour's complaints put a damper on it. |
| dance attendance | If you dance attendance on somebody, you are constantly available for that person and attend to their wishes. She's rich and famous and expects everyone to dance attendance on her. |
| dance to someone's tune | If you dance to someone's tune, you do whatever that person tells you to do. He is the company's major shareholder so the management has to dance to his tune. |
| in the dark | If someone is kept or left in the dark about something, they are not informed about it. The personnel was kept in the dark about the merger until the last minute. |
| darken someone's door | If you darken somebody's door, you come as an unwanted or unwelcome visitor. Just get out of here and never darken my door again! |
| call it a day | To sey 'let's call it a day' is a way of suggesting that it is time to stop doing something, usually because of tiredness. After one last phone call, I decided to call it a day. |
| day late and a dollar short | If something is a day late and a dollar short, it comes too late and is not good enough. They offered me an internship when I had already found a job - a day late and a dollar short! |
| daylight robbery | The term daylight robbery is used when the price of something is thought to be much too high. $10 for an orange juice? That's daylight robbery! |
| dead as a dodo | To say that something is (as) dead as a dodo means that it is unquestionably dead or obsolete, or has gone out of fashion. (A dodo is a bird that is now extinct.) The floppy disk is an invention that is now (as) dead as a dodo. |
| dead as a doornail | This expression is used to stress that a person or thing is very definitely dead. They've started fighting again, so the peace agreement is now as dead as a doornail. |
| dead cert | Something that is certain to happen or be achieved is a dead cert. After such praise, his appointment as captain of the team is a dead cert. |
| dead duck | This expression refers to a project or scheme which has been abandoned or is certain to fail. The new cinema is going to be a dead duck because it's too far away from the town centre. |
| dead in the water | A plan or project that is dead in the water is at a standstill or has ceased to function and is unlikely to be reactivated in the future. Because of the crisis, the planned housing development is now dead in the water |
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