coffin
noun🔊/ˈkɒfɪn/
🔊/ˈkɔːfɪn/
(especially British English) (North American English usually casket)
Idioms a box in which a dead body is buried or cremated 棺材；棺椁；棺木 A procession of mourners slowly followed the coffin. 葬礼队伍缓慢地跟随棺材。 the flag-draped coffins of soldiers coming home 运回国的覆盖着国旗的军人灵柩
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- wooden
- flag-draped
- carry
- take
- lower
- …
- in a/the coffin
Word OriginMiddle English (in the general sense ‘box, casket’): from Old French cofin ‘little basket or case’, from Latin cophinus, from Greek kophinos ‘basket’.
Idioms
a nail in somebody’s/something’s coffin
something that makes the end or failure of an organization, somebody’s plans, etc. more likely to happen 导致失败的事物；导致某事终结之物 This latest defeat is another nail in the government's coffin. 最新的失败是政府棺材的又一钉子。