siete pies de tierra

Language: es

1.
Pan-Hispanicneutral
- Literal measurement: seven feet of earth, understood as a depth or quantity of soil.
2.
Pan-Hispanicliteraryeuphemistic
- Figurative expression meaning to occupy one's grave or to be buried (i.e., to be dead and interred beneath seven feet of earth).

Examples:

ES: "No llegó a ocupar los siete pies de tierra
EN: "He cannot occupy the seven feet of earth

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