| 单词 | the deep six |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe deep six 7. the deep six: used in various slang phrases to denote death or the grave (perhaps from the custom of burial at sea, at a depth of six fathoms); also figurative. Hence as v. transitive, to submerge in water; also figurative, to reject, abandon, conceal. Originally and chiefly U.S. ΚΠ 1929 M. A. Gill Underworld Slang 4/2 Deep six, grave. 1947 S. Palmer Miss Withers Regrets (1948) xii. 135 My old lady went over the hill with my bank account before I was out of boot camp. I'd have given her the deep-six if I coulda got a furlough. 1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iii. 50 Attack, retaliation, both projectiles deep-sixed forever and the Pacific rolls on. 1973 Times 26 July 8/3 Mr Dean has testified that Mr Ehrlichman told him to ‘deep six’ the documents... He said he threw the documents into the Potomac river. 1975 Publishers Weekly 28 July 116/1 They discovered that Americans..have been hung up on the wisdom of Franklin's ‘Poor Richard's Almanack’..: ‘work hard, be thrifty, don't borrow’... They tell their readers to ‘deep six’ Poor Richard and put his advice into reverse. 1976 Listener 28 Oct. 524/3 The more serious charge from Dean that he [sc. President Ford] tried to ‘deep six’ the Watergate investigation. 1977 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 21 Aug. 2/3 I heard later that Bruce had taken them [sc. three guns] out into the saltchuck and deep-sixed them. 1978 Sunday Mail Color Mag. (Brisbane) 7 May 13 'Fraid the rest of the treasure and your gear have gone for the deep six!.. It's over three hundred feet to the bottom of that trench! < as lemmas |
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