six feet under

Idioms  

1. 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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Example Sentences

Separated from their spouses and kids — “Six feet apart or six feet under,” Larette’s son Joey chants — Larette, Cherrise, Marisol and their colleagues are themselves underprotected from the virus, which they eventually contract, and from the domestic dramas that seep from home into their pressure-cooker days.

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You’ve directed some amazing TV shows — “Six Feet Under,” “NYPD Blue,” “Homicide,” “Everwood.”

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The grips at “Six Feet Under” made me an apple box with my name on it and the brass hinges and everything, so I want to take that with me just for good luck, you know, even if I don’t get to use it.

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I loved when I was doing “Six Feet Under,” sitting on an apple box underneath the camera and being onstage with everybody.

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In HBO’s signature drama “Six Feet Under,” Hall was consistently praised for his role as David Fisher, the closeted gay member of a dysfunctional family operating a funeral home.

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