wooden overcoat

wooden overcoat

dated slang A coffin. You're going to end up in a wooden overcoat before you're 50 if you don't start improving your diet. Don't worry, boss. We'll put that stool pigeon in a wooden overcoat before he ever makes it to court.
See also: overcoat, wooden
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • don't bet on it
  • don't give up the ship
  • don't cry before you are hurt
  • bitty
  • don't hand me that line
  • don't hand me that story
  • don't give me that line
  • don't give me that story
  • cast (one's) lot in with (someone or something)
  • cast lot in