farm upstate

US euphemistic

(US, euphemistic) The place an animal (or by extension, person, concept, etc) notionally goes when they are dead, used as a euphemism for a state of literal or figurative death or oblivion.

Japanese Meaning

（婉曲的表現）動物や人、概念などが死んだ後、または実際の死や比喩的な忘却の状態にあると想定される‘場所’を指す表現。 / （比喩的表現）文字通りの死や無への移行、または忘却の状態を暗に示すための婉曲的な言い回し。

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When our old hound finally stopped moving, we told the children he'd been sent to the farm upstate.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

年老いた猟犬がとうとう動かなくなったとき、私たちは子どもたちにあの世に送られたと言いました。

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(US, euphemistic) The place an animal (or by extension, person, concept, etc) notionally goes when they are dead, used as a euphemism for a state of literal or figurative death or oblivion.

What do parents tell their kids when they have to put their pet dog down? “We had to send li'l Fido to a farm upstate, honey....” Maybe that's where I'm going. The farm upstate. “We had to send li'l Spencer to the farm upstate, honey.

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