coffin dodger

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An elderly person, a person near death, or adept at avoiding death.

   “That if parents don't look after their kids some long box makers are likely to be busy soon. That if after the discharge of buckshot these urchin's escape the "O.K" man will have to have another look out for the coffin-dodgers.”

2. isim An alcoholic drink, sometimes drunk as a cure for a hangover.

   “All sorts came to see Linda, whose soulful innocence was as refreshing as a gin cocktail or a coffin-dodger the next morning, when one has a tongue like the corporation street brush and a mouth in semblance, to the bottom of a parrot cage.”