turn over in one's grave, (enough to make one)

An idea or action that would have greatly upset the deceased. This hyperbole dates from the mid-nineteenth century. “Jefferson might turn in his grave if he knew,” wrote historian James Bryce (The American Commonwealth, 1888). It also is put as to roll over in one’s grave, and the Boston Globe quoted Leah Rabin, the widow of Israel’s prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, in a headline, “Rabin spinning in his grave on Jerusalem, widow says” (Sept. 9, 2000).

词组	turn over in one's grave, (enough to make one)
释义	turn over in one's grave, (enough to make one) turn over in one's grave, (enough to make one) An idea or action that would have greatly upset the deceased. This hyperbole dates from the mid-nineteenth century. “Jefferson might turn in his grave if he knew,” wrote historian James Bryce (The American Commonwealth, 1888). It also is put as to roll over in one’s grave, and the Boston Globe quoted Leah Rabin, the widow of Israel’s prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, in a headline, “Rabin spinning in his grave on Jerusalem, widow says” (Sept. 9, 2000). See also: make, over, turn The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: cat got your tongue, has the bottle up feelings, to keep your eyes peeled/skinned way to a man's heart, the past history more power to you/him/them cat that swallowed the canary, (look) like the end of the world, it's not/wouldn't be the bet one's bottom dollar, one can hear a pin drop, one/you could
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