turn in one's grave

短语

某人的棺材板都压不住了

发音

AU

词形变化

turned in one's grave turning in one's grave turns in one's grave 三单 turns in one's grave turning in one's grave 现在分词 turned in one's grave 过去式 turned in one's grave 过去分词

别名

turn over in one's grave

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To be appalled, offended or disgusted by something, despite being deceased.

    某人的棺材板都压不住了

    习语

    Beethoven is probably turning in his grave at the way that rock group mangled his Ninth Symphony.

    The new scientific discovery about the gravitation particle could make Isaac Newton turn in his grave.

  2. 2.

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, in, one's, grave.

词源

Documented in English since 1801, perhaps from Jewish rabbinic tradition that the bones of Judah rolled about in his coffin for his shame during the Exodus.

来源：wiktionary