cold meat box

English

Noun

cold meat box (plural cold meat boxes)

  1. (Britain, slang, obsolete) A coffin.
    • 1899, Eugène Sue, The Works of Eugène Sue: Illustrated with Etchings (page 45)
      "Perhaps you have a charm for never growing any older?"
      "No; but I could not lead such a life. I have already a bad cough."
      "Ah, I see you already in the cold-meat box."

References
  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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