English Dictionary

deep six

名詞

Ejection, discardment or destruction. / The grave or death; also, the (notional) place where something is discarded.

日本語の意味

放逐、廃棄、破棄（何かを排除・取り除く行為） / 墓、死、または捨て去られた紀念的な場所（比喩的に捨てられたものが置かれる場所）

The board gave the project a deep six after the cost overruns were revealed.

コスト超過が明らかになったため、取締役会はそのプロジェクトを廃棄した。

意味（1）

Ejection, discardment or destruction.

Otherwise when Don got in trouble he might have really got the deep six. He had a pretty level head, though, and I guess that's what saved him.

意味（2）

The grave or death; also, the (notional) place where something is discarded.

The discretion of social conversation, even among friends, is exceeded only by the discretion of “the deep six,” that grave wherein nothing is mentioned at all.

the deep six （ canonical ）