Brewer's: Lie with One's Fathers

(To). To be buried in one's native place. “Reposer avec ses péres.”

“I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt.” - Genesis xlvii. 30

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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