wooden coat
English
Alternative forms
Noun
wooden coat (plural wooden coats)
- (slang) Synonym of coffin.
- 1916, Massachusetts Reformatory (Concord, Mass.), Our Paper - Volume 32, page 634:
- A wooden coat, six feet of earth, Is all that he deserves.
- 1946, Roche Review - Volumes 11-12, page 32:
- Let all those that are suffering from any complaint or disease, and who are anxious to regain health and escape a wooden coat consult an experienced and successful practitioner
- 1946, Alekseĭ Chapygin, Stepan Razin; A novel, page 93:
- Each of us will want one, be he beggar, policeman, prince or boyar ; everyone, sooner or later, will parade in such a wooden coat.
- 1972, George Mackay Brown, Greenvoe: a novel, page 224:
- 'My next goddam coat,' he said, 'will be a wooden coat'. . . . Now he was being measured for his wooden coat,
Translations
euphemistic slang term for coffin
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