put another nail in (someone's or something's) coffin Idiom

another nail in your coffin

"another cigarette; harmful substance" Every cigarette he smoked was another nail in his coffin.

nail in your coffin

(See another nail in your coffin)

coffin dodger

derogatory term for an elderly person

coffin nail

a cigarette

another nail in one's or sth's coffin

Idiom(s): (another) nail in one's or sth's coffin

Theme: 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 coffin
Something 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 addition 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. The aggregation was already adverse a lot of problems. This chic activity accusation is activity to put addition attach in their coffin. Every cigarette you smoke is putting addition attach in your coffin. You apperceive that, right?Learn more: another, coffin, nail, put

nail 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, put

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