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Literature | Nail in One's Coffin To drive a nail into one's coffin. To shorten life by anxiety, drink, etc. Topers call a dram "a nail in their coffin," in jocular allusion to the teetotal axiom. "Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt; But every grin so merry draws one out." Peter Pindar (John Wolcot): Expostulatory Odes, Ode xv. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: NAIL IN ONE'S COFFIN |
| Specialty definitions using "NAIL IN ONE'S COFFIN": Nail in One's Coffin. (references) |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 41 49 4C 49 4E 4F 4E 45 27 53 43 4F 46 46 49 4E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01000001 01001001 01001100 00100000 01001001 01001110 00100000 01001111 01001110 01000101 00100111 01010011 00100000 01000011 01001111 01000110 01000110 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N A I L   I N   O N E ' S   C O F F I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0041 0049 004C 0049 004E 004F 004E 0045 0027 0053 0043 004F 0046 0046 0049 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)483543462434824948399532374940404348 |
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