Search results
We did not find results for: What does'mortal coil' mean?.
Check spelling or type a new query.
Yahoo Web Search
- Mortal coil
Poetic term for the troubles of daily life
"Mortal coil" is a poetic term for the troubles of daily life and the strife and suffering of the world. It is used in the sense of a burden to be carried or abandoned. To "shuffle off this mortal coil" is to die, exemplified in the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Wikipedia
