Meanings
adjectivedumb as a haddock (not comparable)
- not comparablesimileUtterly mute; never speaking.
The brandy got into it and did his business for him, and Coo reeled off home, leaving his entertainer as dumb as a haddock on a Good Friday.
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 534Synonyms: dumb as a fish
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveUtterly mute; never speaking.
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