Sleep with the Fishes

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 87617

srbeers wrote:
> Unfortunately, the more successful and the more fulfilled Ron
> is, the more likely I think he is to 'sleep with the fishes' 
> before the end of the book.

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Susanne <siskiou at m...> replied:

> > Just wondering what the above means :)
> >
> > I'm from Germany, living in the US, and have never come
> > across the term you used before.
> 
> Sorry for the OT post!
> This was supposed to go privately, and I thought I stopped
> the post in time, but it came through anyhow.

Just as well to ask and answer it on-line, in case other people have
the  same question.

'He's sleeping with the fishes' means 'he's dead'. It *specifically*
refers to someone being murdered and the body being thrown into the
nearby large body of water and the phrase was popularized by old
gangster movies.