coffin nails
Slang for cigarettes
Coffin nails is slang for cigarettes, emphasizing their lethal effects: I've been trying to quit these coffin nails for years.
The phrase dates to the early twentieth century.
Separately, coffin nails are the distinctive long, tapered artificial fingernails shaped like a coffin—flat-tipped rather than pointed.
- buttRear of body
- smokesCigarettes, informally
- cigarettesPaper-wrapped tobacco for smoking
- cancer sticksDerogatory term for cigarettes
- MarlboroMajor cigarette brand
pack a day · tar · chain-smoking · smoke break · lung cancer · death knell · death · carton · unfiltered · rolling papers · memento mori · emphysema · paper · puff · drag · burial · nicotine · mortality
- Hoodoohoodoo, rootwork, root doctor, conjure, mojo bag
- burial containersurn, sarcophagus, cremation urn, burial urn, funeral urn
- stick-onsiron-on transfers, peel and stick
coffin nailshealth food
Nutrient-dense dietary choices
vitamins · medicine · vegetables · supplements · superfoods
coffin nailsfountain of youth
Restorative source of youthfulness
elixir of life · breath of life · life force · life-giving · ambrosia
coffin nailsclean living
Morally upright lifestyle
healthy habits · self-care · temperance · abstinence · sobriety
nail, coffin, nails, casket, nailed, nailing, coffins, caskets, nailer