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 figurativelySome 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.
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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
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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
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