English Dictionary

farm upstate

名詞

アメリカ英語 婉語

(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.

日本語の意味

（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。

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

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。

意味（1）

(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.