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What does six foot in the ground mean?
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To give a bit more explanation, it means, "dead," because you bury a body at least six feet underground, so that wild animals don't dig it up and eat it.
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To give a bit more explanation, it means, "dead," because you bury a body at least six feet underground, so that wild animals don't dig it up and eat it.
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It's a figure of speech meaning "dead" because when the dead are buried, they are are buried six feet below the ground.
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It means to be dead. If you are dead your body is buried in the ground
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The phrase “six feet under” is always synonymous to death. 💀
When the bubonic plague hit the London area in 1655, the mayor of London immediately issued a law on how to properly deal with dead bodies to prevent the spread of infection. It was then specified that the graves should be dug “at least six feet deep.”
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that means body is placed 6 feet undear form the earth surface and it doesn't mean height of the body. am I correct?
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