screen door on a submarine
screen door on a submarine noun: something that is useless or absurd.
Noun
screen door on a submarine (plural screen doors on a submarine or screen doors on submarines)
- Something that is useless or absurd.
- But realists put the final number of jobs saved through privatisation at no more than 800. "It's about as useful to us as a screen door on a submarine," says an angry mayor's office in Sacramento .1995, The Economist, volume 336, numbers 7921-7925, Economist Newspaper Limited
- I doubt anybody would give you static about unloaded and stored long guns anywhere in U.S. waters, and few places would about handguns (although unloaded guns are as useful as a screen door on a submarine).”2005 July, Rich Beattie, “Trigger Happy”, in Boating, volume 78, number 7, →ISSN, page 123
Forms of screen door on a submarine
| plural | screen doors on a submarine |
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| plural | screen doors on submarines |
Origin of screen door on a submarine
A screen door on a submarine would be absurd as it would allow the vessel to fill with water.
Questions about screen door on a submarine
- What does screen door on a submarine mean?
- Screen door on a submarine means something that is useless or absurd.
- What part of speech is screen door on a submarine?
- Screen door on a submarine is a noun.
- What is the plural of screen door on a submarine?
- The plural of screen door on a submarine is screen doors on a submarine.
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