six feet under
In the ground
Six feet under means dead and buried, from the traditional depth of graves.
The phrase appears in contexts ranging from literal burial to figurative destruction: He'll be six feet under before he admits he was wrong.
It often carries dark humor or blunt finality: Keep smoking like that and you'll be six feet under by fifty.
Serious and worrying
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- coffinBurial container for remains
- tombstoneMemorial stone at grave
- casketBurial container
graveyard · plot · crypt · mausoleum · sepulcher · hearse · pallbearer · mortician
No longer living
lifeless · corpse · cadaver · demise · expired · fallen · late · mortal remains
Sky or bliss
- hellUnderworld of suffering
- purgatoryPlace of temporary suffering
- soulInnermost animating essence
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
eternity · reincarnation · paradise · limbo · resurrection · salvation · damnation · ancestors
Fixed without end
- irreversibleCannot be undone
- finalLast and decisive
- endFinal portion or cessation
- overAbove or exceeding
no return · done · finished · inevitable · ultimate · irrevocable · conclusive · last
grave
Serious and worrying
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- coffinBurial container for remains
- tombstoneMemorial stone at grave
casket · graveyard · plot · crypt · mausoleum · sepulcher · hearse · pallbearer · mortician · embalming
deceased
No longer living
perished · lifeless · corpse · cadaver · demise · expired · fallen · late · mortal remains · remains
heaven
Sky or bliss
spirit · eternity · reincarnation · paradise · limbo · resurrection · salvation · damnation · ancestors · beyond
permanent
Fixed without end
- irreversibleCannot be undone
- finalLast and decisive
- endFinal portion or cessation
no return · over · done · finished · inevitable · ultimate · irrevocable · conclusive · last · terminal
- Number Phrasesone and only, two cents, three strikes, four corners, five senses
- death idiomsdead end, dead serious, dead wrong, dead tired, dead weight
- Euphemismspass away, passed away, passed on, expecting, with child
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- endingsending, the end, finish, close, final
- tombstombs, burial vault, burial chamber, mausoleum, graves
six feet underalive
Having current existence
living · alive and kicking · breathing · surviving · extant
six feet underabove ground
Not beneath the surface
walking around · up and about · upright · standing tall · topside
six feet underalive and well
Existing and healthy
thriving · full of life · flourishing · in the pink · going strong
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