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Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

117 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—another nail in the coffin

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Language Learning, Education, Self-improvement

4.7756 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2014

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today’s expression and dialog: another nail in the coffin… Russia and China have a LOT of new business deals. Good for them. But that’s another nail in the coffin for the dollar. So…should we buy gold?                                                                Please subscribe on iTunes and get this podcast EVERY DAY! Support Coach Shane by giving $1 a month! www.patreon.com/coachshane Our sponsors: www.letsmasterenglish.com/tryddm (Get 8 FREE DDM lessons!) www.audibletrial.com/lme (Get a free AUDIO BOOK!) www.letsmasterenglish.com/grammar (CHECK YOUR GRAMMAR!) Our YouTube channel:   www.youtube.com/DailyEasyEnglish

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, my name is Coach Shane and welcome to easy English expressions.

0:11.0

You and me every day, come on, let's master English.

0:29.9

Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression.

0:33.9

Today's podcast is brought to you by Audible.

0:37.9

They'll give you a free audio book.

0:40.7

But I'll tell you about that later.

0:48.0

Today's expression is another nail in the coffin.

0:49.6

Dun, dun, done, done.

0:53.8

All right, so coffin, C-O-F-F-I-N. Co coffin coffin is a coffin is the box that when you die they put you in

1:01.2

do you know dracula he sleeps in a coffin yes when you die they put you in a coffin yes when you die

1:08.3

they put you in a coffin and then they i guess some countries and cultures are different but, they put you in a coffin, and then they, I guess some countries and cultures are different, but then they put you in the ground.

1:15.7

So that's a coffin.

1:17.2

So when they put you in a coffin, they must put the top on the coffin and they nail the coffin shut. an A-I-L.

1:30.0

They take a hammer and do-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-tun, and they put nails in the coffin.

1:35.4

So why do they put nails in the coffin?

1:39.3

You're not going to escape.

1:41.3

That would be scary if you could escape.

1:43.9

Anyway, another nail in the coffin. Hopefully you have an

1:49.0

image. This is a great daily expression and we use it to describe something that is dying, especially businesses.

2:01.6

That's right.

2:03.6

So think about it.

2:05.6

Right now, you're listening to a podcast.

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