wooden coat

Definitions

Synonym of coffin.

figuratively, informal

Equivalents

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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