another/the final nail in the coffin
an event that causes the failure of something that had already started to fail:
Each successive revelation of incompetence is another nail in the chairman's coffin.
That report drove the final nail in the company's coffin.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Failures
- a dog's breakfast idiom
- breakdown
- car crash
- cock-up
- dead duck
- dead loss
- free fall
- hash
- lemon
- lost cause
- lulu
- mess
- mess-up
- might-have-been
- parody
- slush pile
- track record
- train wreck
- turkey
- underachiever
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