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six feet under
Idioms and Phrases
Dead and buried, as in No, you can't read my diaryânot until I'm six feet under . Although this expression alludes to what has long been the traditional depth of a grave, that is, approximately the same as the length of the coffin, it dates only from the mid-1900s.Example Sentences
Sentamu responded: "I'll do it again. I'll do it to your mum. Do you want to end up like her, six feet under?"
Had May not gone to the hospital, âI would have been six feet under that night,â he said.
âSix Feet Underâ is dappled with Lynchian homages â easy enough to explain in a show about a family that dwells in the figurative crawlspace between life and death, whose business is guiding families through loss.
Foster, who has starred in â3:10 to Yuma,â âSix Feet Underâ and the Disney Channel series âFlash Forward,â asked the court to enforce a 2018 prenuptial agreement that called for an âequitable divisionâ of their marital assets and debts and the incorporation of their âmarital dissolution agreement and agreed parenting planâ into their final divorce decree.
âI am looking to have a profound experience,â the veteran of âGirls,â âSix Feet Underâ and âSeinfeld,â among other shows, writes in the first entry of his diary.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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