deep sixとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

動詞

deep six

1. (idiomatic) To discard, cancel, halt; to completely put an end to something.

   They had put many hundreds of hours into the project before it was deep-sixed by management.

参考

• pull the plug
• eighty-six
• six feet under

参照

• http://www.navyandmarine.org/planspatterns/soundingline.htm

動詞

deep-six (三人称単数 現在形 deep-sixes, 現在分詞 deep-sixing, 過去形および過去分詞形 deep-sixed)

1. (US, transitive) To throw overboard from a ship.
2. (US, transitive) To get rid of.
   • 2007, January 28, New York Times [1]

     First, the stark message to “eat less” of a particular food has been deep-sixed.

参考

• hit into the long grass