Oh yes, and "couldn't hold a snuffbox" is a riff off the more recognizable "couldn't hold a candle to" ... means "couldn't compare."

Etymology cited by ESC, http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/20/messages/1208.html from Brewer's Phrase and Fable is: "He is not fit to hold the candle to him." He is very inferior. The allusion is to link-boys who held candles in theatres and other places of night amusement.

" ... These linkboys were considered very inferior beings, so to say that Tom couldn't 'hold a candle to ' Harry meant that Tom was very much inferior to Harry." From the "Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins" by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollins, New York, 1977, 1988).

There, I bet that's six times more than you ever wanted to know about that. Bob