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单词 to drive a nail into any one's coffin
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to drive (or put) a nail into any one's coffin
d. to drive (or put) a nail into any one's coffin: to do a thing that tends to shorten his life.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > produce disease [verb (intransitive)] > shorten one's life
to drive (or put) a nail into any one's coffin1836
1836 A. W. Fonblanque in Examiner 29 May 337/2 A dram which..‘drives nails into the victim's coffin’, according to the expressive vulgar saying.
1874 J. McCarthy Linley Rochford I. ix. 199 Every dinner eaten under such conditions is a nail driven into one's coffin.
extracted from coffinn.
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