Idiom
take someone to the grave
Meaning
To kill someone; to cause someone's death.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The dangerous secret could take him to the grave.”
“The criminal threatened that if the witness spoke to the police, he would take her to the grave.”
“Driven by a cold and calculated vengeance, the assassin vowed to take his target to the grave before the sun rose over the city.”
Examples
simple
“The dangerous secret could take him to the grave.”
contextual
“The criminal threatened that if the witness spoke to the police, he would take her to the grave.”
complex
“Driven by a cold and calculated vengeance, the assassin vowed to take his target to the grave before the sun rose over the city.”
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