| 单词 | to make a hole in the water |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make a hole in the water (c) slang (originally and chiefly British). to make a hole in the water: to commit suicide by drowning. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > suicide > [verb (intransitive)] > types of to put a pistol to (one's) head1741 to make a hole in the water1826 self-immolate1879 1826 Times 3 Nov. He told her, if he could not go on he should make a hole in the water. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xlvi. 446 I don't know why I don't go and make a hole in the water, I'm sure I don't. 1898 Western Mail (Perth, Austral.) 2 Sept. 34/4 It is alleged that during the day he had stated his intention to make away with himself, remarking that he would ‘make a hole in the water’. 1924 Teesdale Mercury 11 June In his blackest moods he talked of making a hole in the water. 1939 J. B. Priestley Let People Sing 16 Others again..not wanting to live on, pulling a trigger, making a hole in the water. 1989 Social Hist. 14 123 The young woman in London ‘making a hole in the water’ was perhaps closer to the reality than Anderson implies. < as lemmas |
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