sleep with the fishes

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词形变化

sleeping with the fishes sleeps with the fishes 三单 sleeps with the fishes slept with the fishes sleeping with the fishes 现在分词 slept with the fishes 过去式 slept with the fishes 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To be dead, with one's corpse disposed of in a body of water.

    习语

词源

The idea of sleeping with fishes first appears in Homer's Iliad (21), in which Achilles threatens (and kills) Lycaon (son of Priam), who will 'sleep with the fishes', in some translations. There was emphasis on the brutality of this method because it meant the body would remain forever unburied akin to an animal (fish). The earliest known exact phrase is from 1833, see the quotation below. The phrase was popularized in the motion picture The Godfather (1972). The 1969 book on which the movie was based includes a large, dead fish wrapped in a bulletproof vest being used to signify that a character is "sleeping on the bottom of the ocean", but not the phrase.

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