This stock wouldn't SURGE if you put 50,000 volts through it!
It's a stiff! Bereft of life, It rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! It's metabolic processes are now history! It's off the twig! It's kicked the bucket, It's shuffled off it's mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!!