| 单词 | a nail in the coffin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa nail in the coffin c. a nail in the coffin and variants: something that hastens or contributes to the end of the person or thing referred to. Cf. sense 7e, and coffin-nail n. (b) at coffin n. Compounds 2.With a final nail (in the coffin) cf. the last straw s.v. straw n.1 8. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition > that which hastens the end of a person or thing a nail in the coffin1789 1789 ‘P. Pindar’ Expostulatory Odes xv. 50 Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt. 1821 P. Egan Life in London 183 A glass of spirits is termed, among the wet ones, adding ‘another nail to the coffin’. 1884 Illustr. London News 29 Nov. 526/3 ‘The Candidate’..is one more nail in the coffin of slow acting. 1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos ix. 36 And the King o' Ragona, Alphonse le roy d'Aragon, was the next nail in our coffin. 1998 Total Football Aug. 29/1 Their intelligence was rewarded with another great strike, this time by Vlaovic, and Suker's marvellous late third was the final nail. < as lemmas |
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