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Phrase(s): put someone to bed with a shovel
Sl. to bury someone; to kill and bury someone. • Shut up! You want me to put you to bed with a shovel? • The leader of the gang was getting sort of tired and old, so one of the younger thugs put him to bed with a shovel., Phrase(s): put to bed with a shovel
1. Sl. dead and buried. (Alludes to burying someone.) • You wanna be put to bed with a shovel? Just keep talking that way. • Poor old Jake. He was put to bed with a shovel last March. 2. Sl. intoxicated. • He wasn’t just tipsy. He was put to bed with a shovel! • Dead drunk? Yes, he was put to bed with a shovel.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs