英语词汇coffin nails的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	coffin nails
词源	coffin nails. Coffin nails has been American slang for ciga- rettes since the 1880s, at least 20 years before cigarettes were called weeds and 40 years before they were called butts. Another nail in my coffin, said by a person lighting a cigarette, has been a catchphrase since about 1910, when it was first recorded in Australia. Cigarette itself is first recorded in England in 1842, though these “little cigars” had been smoked for at least two centuries before then.
随便看	notre pierre not right not so hot not the only pebble on the beach not to be sneezed at not to care a straw not to get the bat off one-s shoulder not to know beans not to know beef from bulls’ foot not to know if one is coming or going not to know one-s ass from one-s elbow not tonight josephine not to turn a hair not to worry not what it-s cracked up to be not worth a bean not worth a continental not worth a hannah cook not worth a plugged nickel not worth a rap not worth a red cent not worth a row hill of beans not worth a tinker-s damn dam not worth his salt not written in stone

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