cold meat box
English
Noun
cold meat box (plural cold meat boxes)
- (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."
- "Perhaps you have a charm for never growing any older?"
- 1899, Eugène Sue, The Works of Eugène Sue: Illustrated with Etchings (page 45)
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary