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the place where you can stand up but still somehow drown your dignity.
means Having little depth, whether literally measured in water or figuratively in thought, feeling, or character.
from From Middle English shalowe, likely related to shoal — that ridge of sand where deep water suddenly turns wadeable. The watery sense came first; the dismissive 'shallow person' meaning, that someone has no depths to plumb, is a natural drift of the same image into the realm of the mind.
- deadly depth
- More drownings happen in shallow water than deep
- word origin
- Related to old words for hollow and sloping
- hot zones
- Shallow water heats faster, breeding more life and algae
- diving danger
- Most spinal injuries come from shallow-end dives
- flattery synonym
- Used for people with the emotional depth of a puddle
for instance
mariana trench — deepest ocean trench at 36,070 feet, so 'shallow' is its opposite extreme
lake baikal shallows — world's deepest lake, yet has shallow bays near the shore in listvyanka
venice lagoon — average depth 3 feet, makes navigation and flooding endemic to the city