six feet under

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

"Six feet" refers to the traditional depth to which graves are dug.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (General Australian):(file)

Adjective

six feet under

  1. (idiomatic, euphemistic) Buried six feet underground; not alive; dead.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dead
    My grandparents are six feet under.

Translations

Translations
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.