Idiom
watery grave
Meaning
The death (or loss of an inanimate object) due to drowning (sinking) in a body of water; or the underwater resting place of such a person or object.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The old ship met a watery grave during the storm.”
“The heavy crate slipped off the boat and sank into its watery grave at the bottom of the lake.”
“After the fierce gale tore the vessel apart, the sailors were lost to a watery grave beneath the churning waves of the Atlantic.”
Examples
simple
“The old ship met a watery grave during the storm.”
contextual
“The heavy crate slipped off the boat and sank into its watery grave at the bottom of the lake.”
complex
“After the fierce gale tore the vessel apart, the sailors were lost to a watery grave beneath the churning waves of the Atlantic.”
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