Sleep With the Fishes is a euphemism for dying or death, and committing murder. The expression is said to have been used for the first time in the film 'The Godfather' (1972) – 'Luca Brasi sleeps with
Sleep With the Fishes
A euphemism for dying or death.
Committing murder.
Origin
The expression is said to have been used for the first time in the film 'The Godfather' (1972) – 'Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes' (sleeps at the bottom of the ocean).
In the original text of Mario Puzo's novel 'The Godfather' (1969), the following is written: 'The fish means that Luca Brasi is sleeping on the bottom of the ocean,' he said. 'It's an old Sicilian message.'
A similar expression was also used in Herman Melville's novel 'Moby Dick' – 'when Aquarius, or the Water-bearer, pours out his whole deluge and drowns us; and to wind up with Pisces, or the Fishes, we sleep.' (Melville, Moby Dick, ch. 94).
The scene with the murder of the character Luca Brasi from the film 'The Godfather'.
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