| 单词 | cold-meat train |
| 释义 | > as lemmascold-meat train 2. slang. A corpse; corpses. Chiefly attributive, as cold-meat box (coffin), cold-meat cart (hearse), cold-meat party (funeral or wake), cold-meat train (funeral train). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > dead body > [noun] lichc893 dust?a1000 holdc1000 bonesOE stiff onea1200 bodyc1225 carrion?c1225 licham?c1225 worms' food or ware?c1225 corsec1250 ashc1275 corpsec1315 carcass1340 murraina1382 relicsa1398 ghostc1400 wormes warec1400 corpusc1440 scadc1440 reliefc1449 martc1480 cadaverc1500 mortc1500 tramort?a1513 hearse1530 bulk1575 offal1581 trunk1594 cadaverie1600 relicts1607 remains1610 mummya1616 relic1636 cold meat1788 mortality1827 death bone1834 deader1853 stiff1859 1788 F. Grose Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) sig. G3 A dead wife is the best cold meat in a man's house. 1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress 25 In the Twelfth and Last Round Sandy fetch'd him a downer, That left him all's one as cold meat for the Crowner. 1820 ‘P. Corcoran’ Fancy 46 He's for the cold meat cart, and so am I. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xix. 188 You mustn't handle your piece in that ere way..I'm damned if you won't make cold meat of some on us. 1845 J. D. Smith tr. E. Sue Myst. of Paris I. iii. 28 ‘I have already a bad cough.’ ‘Ah, I see you already in the cold-meat box.’ 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 125 Cold meat train, the last train at night by which officers can reach Aldershot per South Western Railway. So called because by this train corpses are often conveyed on account of the Necropolis Company to Woking. 1889 Sporting Times 3 Aug. 1/3 I should just come in where you were lying in the cold-meat box. 1908 J. M. Sullivan Criminal Slang 1 A cold meat party—a wake. 1924 G. C. Henderson Keys to Crookdom 401 Cold-meat party, funeral, wake. 1944 ‘N. Shute’ Pastoral v. 107 But for the Grace of God..they'd all have been cold meat. < as lemmas |
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