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A dead letter.
An argument or law not followed by anyone.
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Dead letters?
The New Yorker, October 30, 1926 P. 65 Dead letters.
It is possible that some of the agreements reached will be dead letters.
By Margaret Fishback The New Yorker, October 30, 1926 P. 65 Dead letters.
Some of the rule changes in those earlier episodes seem to have had an effect, others have been dead letters.
"Unfinished Painting" also includes "Dead Letters," an elegy for Salter's mother nearly as powerful as "Elegies for Etsuko".
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It became a dead letter in January.
Democracy becomes a dead letter.
The latter turned out to be a dead letter.
By the spring of 1925, the amendment was a dead letter.
The NEC became a dead letter; conference became a shell.
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