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six feet under

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Idioms and Phrases

Dead and buried, as in No, you can't read my diary—not until I'm six feet under . Although this expression alludes to what has long been the traditional depth of a grave, that is, approximately the same as the length of the coffin, it dates only from the mid-1900s.

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Our memories of the fathers on "The Sopranos" and "Six Feet Under" may have faded under the glaring, angry light of more recent lions.

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Some are navigable, as we saw in “Six Feet Under.”

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Sentamu responded: "I'll do it again. I'll do it to your mum. Do you want to end up like her, six feet under?"

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Had May not gone to the hospital, “I would have been six feet under that night,” he said.

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“Six Feet Under” is dappled with Lynchian homages – easy enough to explain in a show about a family that dwells in the figurative crawlspace between life and death, whose business is guiding families through loss.

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