Meaning of wooden coat | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of coffin.

figuratively, informal

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Examples

“A wooden coat, six feet of earth, Is all that he deserves.”

“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”

“Each of us will want one, be he beggar, policeman, prince or boyar ; everyone, sooner or later, will parade in such a wooden coat.”

“'My next goddam coat,' he said, 'will be a wooden coat'. . . . Now he was being measured for his wooden coat,”

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