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- wooden board used to make a coffin (also refers to the coffin itself); (fig.) (of a facial expression) grim; unsmiling
- coffin bread, a Taiwanese snack consisting of a thick slab of bread, fried or toasted, then hollowed out, filled with a thick stew, and capped with a "coffin lid" (slice of fried bread)
- geezer with one foot in the grave (used jokingly or as an imprecation)
Trad. 不見棺材不落淚
- lit. not to shed a tear until one sees the coffin (idiom)
- fig. refuse to be convinced until one is faced with grim reality