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another/the final nail in the coffin
idiom
an event that causes the failure of something that had already started to fail: 导致失败的事件，致命打击，催命符
Each successive revelation of incompetence is another nail in the chairman's coffin.接二连三地显露出不称职是导致董事长下台的一道道催命符。
That report drove the final nail in the company's coffin.那份报告为公司敲响了丧钟。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Failures
bloodbath
brain freeze
breakdown
busted flush
car crash
car wreck
fiasco
flameout
flop
foul (something) up
freefall
hash
lemon
loser
parody
post-crash
pratfall
reversal
slim pickings
slush pile
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