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- verb idiomatic, transitive To
bury (someone).
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bilby commented on the word put to bed with a shovel
"The spokesman said it would be appropriate for mourners to bring candles to the event, to symbolise the time the queen tried to use the state Poverty Fund to heat Buckingham Palace despite with her own personal fortune and estate worth an estimated £40,000,000,000, the property portfolio of which generates £300 million per year and which had a family thrown out during the covid eviction ban for a £32 unpaid bill.
'Who knows, maybe Elton will re-do Candle in the Wind again like he did in 1997 when that doll-faced strumpet was put to bed with a shovel?'”
- Modest 'Mourning Glory' for Betty, 10 September 2022, https://tasmaniantimes.com/2022/09/modest-mourning-glory-for-betty/
September 10, 2022