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coffin / CL: ,
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coffin
coffin
inner and outer coffins / coffin
sarcophagus
don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin (idiom)
a bier / a catafalque (memorial platform) / a coffin
funerary urn
coffin-shaped freezer used to store a corpse
wooden board used to make a coffin (also refers to the coffin itself); (fig.) (of a facial expression) grim; unsmiling / coffin bread, a Taiwanese snack consisting of a thick slab of bread, fried or toasted, then hollowed out, filled with a thick stew, and capped with a "coffin lid" (slice of fried bread)
don't pass judgment on a person's life until the lid is on the coffin (idiom)
lit. not to shed a tear until one sees the coffin (idiom) / fig. refuse to be convinced until one is faced with grim reality
geezer with one foot in the grave (used jokingly or as an imprecation)
urn burial


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