| 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. |
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