make a hole in the water

make a hole in the water
   to kill yourself by drowning
   Plunging from a height, but not of diving:
    Why I don't go and make a hole in the water I don't know. (C. Dickens, 1853)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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