Re: Cult:Reverting to White
- To: i*@egroups.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk]Cult:Reverting to White
- From: h*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 19:24:32 EDT
In a message dated 4/4/00 7:06:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
randysiris@juno.com writes:
<< Where I come from "Deepsix" means to bury it six feet under.
In other words to get rid of it. >>
From Webster's Third new International Dictionary, Unabridged, p.590.
"Deep-six. [perh. so called fr. the idea of submersion under six fathoms of
water.] Slang: burial at sea. ('it was not in the traditions of the navy to
give this lad a deep six in the darkness of midnight'--H. M. Forgey) 2.
Slang. DISCARD, OBLIVION--used esp. in the phrase 'give it the deep six.'
Anner Whitehead/HIPSource@aol.com
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