英语词汇“to sleep with the fishes”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

to sleep with the fishes: to die or be dead, esp. in a body of water; spec. to have been murdered and had one's corpse disposed of in a body of water. Also figurative.Popularized in later use by the 1972 American film The Godfather (see quot. 1972).

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1821 tr. Homer Iliad II. xxi. 275 Achilles..cast him to be carried along by the river, and..addressed to him these winged words: ‘Lie there now among the fishes’ [Gk. ἐνταυθοῖ νῦν κεῖσο μετ᾽ ἰχθύσιν].]

1836 E. Spencer Sketches Germany & Germans II. xv. 51 The deluded peasants..forcibly put to flight the magician himself, vowing, with imprecations, if he repeated the visit, they would send him to sleep with the fishes.

1905 Search-light 15 July 13/3 After her at full speed hurried the torpedo boat ‘Smetilvy’, manned by a crew of officers and faithful blue jackets, and pledged to send the rebels to sleep with the fishes.

1972 in M. Puzo & F. F. Coppola Godfather (transcript from film) in J. M. Jones Annotated Godfather (2007) 94 Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

1979 N.Y. Times 25 May c17/1 Are there any survivors of the wreck? If so, they've either been rescued already or they're sleeping with the fishes.

1994 Pacific Stars & Stripes (Tokyo) 24 July 5 ‘Power Rangers’ is five times as popular, so Barney [i.e. the character in the U.S. children's television programme Barney & Friends] sleeps with the fishes if the two shows were ever on at the same time.

2001 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 24 June (Mag.) 9/1 The FBI informant that Tony had to clip, sending him to sleep with the fishes.

单词	to sleep with the fishes
释义	> as lemmas to sleep with the fishes to sleep with the fishes: to die or be dead, esp. in a body of water; spec. to have been murdered and had one's corpse disposed of in a body of water. Also figurative.Popularized in later use by the 1972 American film The Godfather (see quot. 1972). ΚΠ 1821 tr. Homer Iliad II. xxi. 275 Achilles..cast him to be carried along by the river, and..addressed to him these winged words: ‘Lie there now among the fishes’ [Gk. ἐνταυθοῖ νῦν κεῖσο μετ᾽ ἰχθύσιν].] 1836 E. Spencer Sketches Germany & Germans II. xv. 51 The deluded peasants..forcibly put to flight the magician himself, vowing, with imprecations, if he repeated the visit, they would send him to sleep with the fishes. 1905 Search-light 15 July 13/3 After her at full speed hurried the torpedo boat ‘Smetilvy’, manned by a crew of officers and faithful blue jackets, and pledged to send the rebels to sleep with the fishes. 1972 in M. Puzo & F. F. Coppola Godfather (transcript from film) in J. M. Jones Annotated Godfather (2007) 94 Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes. 1979 N.Y. Times 25 May c17/1 Are there any survivors of the wreck? If so, they've either been rescued already or they're sleeping with the fishes. 1994 Pacific Stars & Stripes (Tokyo) 24 July 5 ‘Power Rangers’ is five times as popular, so Barney [i.e. the character in the U.S. children's television programme Barney & Friends] sleeps with the fishes if the two shows were ever on at the same time. 2001 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 24 June (Mag.) 9/1 The FBI informant that Tony had to clip, sending him to sleep with the fishes. extracted from sleepv. < as lemmas
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