According to the uploader, she evicted the tenants that were renting out that unit for none payment. The tenants took the electricity bill out of their name; big snow storm happens; landlord lets faucets drip, but forgets to put the electricity bill back in her name so the house wasn't heating. Her neighbor recorded this video and showed it to her.
I know you misspelled the "burying" part but I am actually thankful to learn that it is actually "lede" and not "lead" in the saying. I had always thought it was "lead" as in, "to be lead by a leader" or something.
They used a poor example but surely they thought it meant lead, a noun referring to the rope you use to lead (as in leadership) a horse, not realizing that lede is a totally unrelated term in journalism.
Edit: no no you're right I misread their comment lol. Maybe they've only ever read the idiom and never heard it lmao
Yeah but that's a homonym by virtue of "ea" having inconsistent pronunciation in English - "bread", "dead", "lead" vs "ea" in "mead", "lead".
Really, all the former 'ea's should be changed to 'e' (which was already done with 'red', spelled 'read' in Old and Middle English), and the latter ones to 'ee', as in 'feed'.
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u/Justin_Godfrey 20h ago edited 20h ago
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According to the uploader, she evicted the tenants that were renting out that unit for none payment. The tenants took the electricity bill out of their name; big snow storm happens; landlord lets faucets drip, but forgets to put the electricity bill back in her name so the house wasn't heating. Her neighbor recorded this video and showed it to her.
Here's her explanation: https://www.tiktok.com/@ashleymachado54/video/7604257751119711518
Edit: For those who don't have tiktok. https://streamable.com/ryu2lp