Sleeping with the fishes

Posted by Dave December 17, 2002In reply to What is the origin of these phrases? posted by APlusC on December 17, 2002

Hi,

I'm toally new to this forum, just stumbled
across it today.

Sleeping with the fishes I think comes from
gangsters, who used it as a euphemism for
killing someone, weighting the body down,
and chucking it in the river or the sea.

Dave.