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wooden coat en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (figuratively, informal) Synonym of coffin.
   • 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, Roche Review - Volumes 11-12, page 32:
   • Each of us will want one, be he beggar, policeman, prince or boyar ; everyone, sooner or later, will parade in such a wooden coat. 1946, Alekseĭ Chapygin, Stepan Razin; A novel, page 93:
   • A wooden coat, six feet of earth, Is all that he deserves. 1916, Massachusetts Reformatory (Concord, Mass.), Our Paper - Volume 32, page 634:
   • 'My next goddam coat,' he said, 'will be a wooden coat'. . . . Now he was being measured for his wooden coat, 1972, George Mackay Brown, Greenvoe: a novel, page 224:

Forms

Synonyms

coffin

Translations (5)

nl houten jas (euphemistic slang term for coffin) · ru деревя́нный тулу́п (euphemistic slang term for coffin) · ro pardesiu de scânduri (euphemistic slang term for coffin) · ru деревя́нный макинто́ш (euphemistic slang term for coffin) · ru деревя́нный бушла́т (euphemistic slang term for coffin)