nail in one's coffin
English
Phrase
- (slang) An alcoholic drink.
- 1859, Henry Mudge, Physiology, Health and Disease, Demanding Abstinence from Alcoholic Drinks, and Prohibition of Their Common Sale, page 38:
- A man whom I knew frequented a certain public-house, the landlady of which, on handing him his pint of beer, would oftimes accompany it with the remark, "Here, Jā, is another nail in your coffin."
- 1875, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, volume 15, page 383:
- "Hullo! Just in time ā just had drinks all round. Come, put another nail in your coffin!"
- Synonym of another nail in someone's coffin (āevent leading to further failureā)
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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