sleep with the fishes

created by Tsarren
(idea) by Sylvar (3.6 mon) (print)   (I like it!) Sun Mar 12 2000 at 11:43:42
Or, to be more grammatically accurate, a way of saying that one has died by drowning. More generally, it means you've been murdered -- possibly by the Mafia.

I'd rather swim with the sharks than sleep with the fishes.

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