coffin nail

Definition of coffin nail

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Examples of coffin nail in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But the New York Times hammers a coffin nail so hard that Dee Dee and Barry fear their future will be nothing but understudy gigs on the dinner theater circuit. — Charles Mcnulty Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, "Meryl Streep is queen of Netflix’s ‘Prom,’ an LGBTQ message musical gone Hollywood," 3 Dec. 2020 Almost every scene is filmed through a haze or plume of smoke, and the coffin nails define and sicken the chain-smoking characters. — Nina Burleigh, Newsweek, "'Trumbo' Terrific but Fated to Flop," 7 Nov. 2015

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“Coffin nail.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coffin%20nail. Accessed 27 Jan. 2021.

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