Republicans in Congress have pronounced Mr Obama's plan for an infrastructure bank "dead on arrival".
But even if they had done a better job copying the user experience and design, it would have still been dead on arrival.
If the White House were to so much as delay in disclosing the tax returns of a nominee, much less tell the Senate that a nominee did not want to disclose them, the nomination would be dead on arrival.
The bill Hillary Clinton drafted and sent to Congress 16 years ago was more or less dead on arrival.
DOA stands for "dead on arrival", a common auction term that means the seller guarantees the item will work when it arrives at your house.
Despairing mothers across England paid dubious businessmen to offload their unwanted babies on the state: many were lost or dead on arrival.
He was dead on arrival at the nearby hospital.
Most of the hares are dead on arrival, having suffocated or frozen to death in their cardboard confines, but that hasn’t slowed a proliferation of orders.
She was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.
