Chicago overcoat
English
Noun
Chicago overcoat (plural Chicago overcoats)
- (US, slang) A coffin; hence (figuratively) death; being killed or murdered.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 189:
- ‘Go ahead and blast and see what it gets you.’
- ‘A Chicago overcoat is what it would get you, little man.’
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 189:
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