cold meat box
English
editNoun
editcold meat box (plural cold meat boxes)
- (UK, 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
edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary