R rainous Member Joined Jun 8, 2011 Member Type Other Native Language Galician Home Country Armenia Current Location Antilles Sep 27, 2011 #1 "His antics turned out to be the nail in the proverbial coffin. Did I you the word "proverbial" right? Or it doesn't make sense in the context?
"His antics turned out to be the nail in the proverbial coffin. Did I you the word "proverbial" right? Or it doesn't make sense in the context?
Barb_D Moderator Staff member Joined Mar 12, 2007 Member Type Other Native Language American English Home Country United States Current Location United States Sep 27, 2011 #2 Sounds very native.
emsr2d2 Moderator Staff member Joined Jul 28, 2009 Member Type English Teacher Native Language British English Home Country UK Current Location UK Sep 27, 2011 #3 rainous said: "His antics turned out to be the nail in the proverbial coffin. Did I [STRIKE]you[/STRIKE] use the word "proverbial" right/ correctly or [STRIKE]it[/STRIKE] doesn't it make sense in the context? Click to expand... Your use of "proverbial" was spot on. Please see the slight amendments I made to your post above.
rainous said: "His antics turned out to be the nail in the proverbial coffin. Did I [STRIKE]you[/STRIKE] use the word "proverbial" right/ correctly or [STRIKE]it[/STRIKE] doesn't it make sense in the context? Click to expand... Your use of "proverbial" was spot on. Please see the slight amendments I made to your post above.
R Rover_KE Moderator Staff member Joined Jun 20, 2010 Member Type Retired English Teacher Native Language British English Home Country England Current Location England Sep 27, 2011 #4 You could also say '. . .the proverbial nail in the coffin' (I prefer this version). Rover
R rainous Member Thread starter Joined Jun 8, 2011 Member Type Other Native Language Galician Home Country Armenia Current Location Antilles Sep 27, 2011 #5 Rover_KE said: You could also say '. . .the proverbial nail in the coffin' (I prefer this version). Rover Click to expand... Yeah. That's was the part that got tricky for me. At first, I thought about using two "proverbial", in front of nail and coffin, but that seemed plain silly.
Rover_KE said: You could also say '. . .the proverbial nail in the coffin' (I prefer this version). Rover Click to expand... Yeah. That's was the part that got tricky for me. At first, I thought about using two "proverbial", in front of nail and coffin, but that seemed plain silly.
5jj Moderator Staff member Joined Oct 14, 2010 Member Type English Teacher Native Language British English Home Country Czech Republic Current Location Czech Republic Sep 27, 2011 #6 rainous said: At first, I thought about using two "proverbial", in front of nail and coffin, but that seemed plain silly. Click to expand... Quite. One is enough.
rainous said: At first, I thought about using two "proverbial", in front of nail and coffin, but that seemed plain silly. Click to expand... Quite. One is enough.