cold meat box

English

Noun

cold meat box (plural cold meat boxes)

1. (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

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary