cold meat box

noun

cold meat box

noun

1

UK, Obsolete, Slang A coffin.

"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."1899, Eugène Sue, The Works of Eugène Sue: Illustrated with Etchings, page 45:

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