| 单词 | to drive a nail into any one's coffin | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas | 
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