big sleep

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Death. euphemistic,idiomatic
    — What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that.

词源

Apparently coined by novelist Raymond Chandler, author of The Big Sleep (1939).
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