wooden coat

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Noun

wooden coat (plural wooden coats)

  1. (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,

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