Meaning of sleep with the fishes | Babel Free

Definitions

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

idiomatic

Examples

“The porter […] opened his sack, and pitched the corpse into the river, and ran back to receive the rest of his pay “ It is done,” said he, laughing ; “ Your man sleeps with the fishes of the Tigris by this time […]””

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