put a nail in (someone's or something's) coffin Idiome
another nail in your coffin
nail in your coffin
coffin dodger
coffin nail
another nail in one's or sth's coffin
Idiom(s): (another) nail in one's or sth's coffinTheme: DOOM
something that will harm or destroy someone or something.
• Every word of criticism that Mary said about her boss was a nail in her coffin.
• Losing the export order was the final nail in the company's coffin.
Nail in the coffin
A nail in someone or something's coffin is a problem or event that is a clear step towards an inevitable failure.coffin nail|coffin|nail
n., slang A cigarette. "I stopped smoking," Algernon said. "In fact, I haven't had a coffin nail in well over a year."nail in one's coffin
nail in one's coffinSomething that might hasten or contribute to one's death, as in Every cigarette you smoke is another nail in your coffin. This expression, alluding to fastening down a coffin lid, is today almost always used for a harmful habit such as tobacco use (giving rise to the slang term coffin nail for a cigar or cigarette). The idea was first expressed in an ode by Pindar (the pseudonym of John Wolcot) in 1792: “Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt.”
put a attach in (someone's or something's) coffin
To do article that leads to or brings about one's, someone's or something's ruin, downfall, or failure. That chic activity accusation is activity to put a attach in the company's coffin. Every cigarette you smoke is putting a attach in your coffin. You apperceive that, right? As I connected bumbling through the interview, I acquainted added and added abiding that I was putting a attach in my own coffin.Learn more: coffin, nail, putnail in one's coffin, drive/put a
Perform some annihilative (or self-destructive) act. The appellation aboriginal appeared in book in Peter Pindar’s (John Wolcot’s) Ode no. 15 (1789): “Care to our casket adds a nail.” It was again over the years, and in the aboriginal twentieth aeon was taken up by the Anti-Cigarette League, which appear that every cigarette smoked was a attach in one’s coffin, giving acceleration to the chatty name coffin attach for a cigarette. “Have you a casket nail?” wrote O. Henry (The Higher Abdication, 1907).Learn more: drive, nail, putDictionary
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