scold’s cure, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

scold’s cure n.

[the misogynistic concept that only death would silence a nagging woman]

a funeral, a coffin.

1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn) n.p.: A Scold’s Cure. A coffin. […].
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1796].
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.

nap the scold’s cure (v.)

to be placed in one’s coffin.

1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn) n.p.: . […] The blowen has napped the scold’s cure; the bitch is in her coffin.
1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 1020/1: ca. 1810–60.