OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 6768

turn in one's grave

Meanings (ES + gloss)
revolcarse en su tumba • revolverse en su tumba
To be appalled, offended or disgusted by something, despite being deceased.
Beethoven is probably turning in his grave at the way that rock group mangled his Ninth Symphony.
The new scientific discovery about the gravitation particle could make Isaac Newton turn in his grave.
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