coffin nail

基本解釋

This is really the nail in the coffin for that.
這真的在棺材中是釘子爲(wèi)那。
As he prepared to leave hospital Orwell received the letter from his publisher which, in hindsight, would be another nail in his coffin.
出院在即，奧威爾收到了出版商的催稿信。事實(shí)上，這等於又往他的棺材上釘了顆釘子。
Both created a furore with the former revealing "a massive fraud" that represented "the final nail in the coffin" for the theory of global warming, deniers argued.
否認(rèn)者爭(zhēng)辯說，這兩件事都利用表示爲(wèi)全球變煖理論“的棺材釘上最後一顆釘子”的“大槼模欺騙”，造成了轟動(dòng)。

That could be the final coffin nail.
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