Be dead from the waist down phrase
If someone "is dead from the waist down", he/she is incapable of having sexual arousal.
If you turn that hot girl down, it means that you are dead from the waist down.
He has been dead from the waist down since he broke up with his girlfriend.
The verb "be" should be conjugated according to its tense.
1. The phrase is used to talk about the earth that is broken up and flattened by a harrow.
2. If somebody is under the harrow, he or she is forced to experience distress, or torment.
1. About 1000 hectares of farmland have been under the harrow for 2 hours.
2. Many families are under the harrow because of the economic recession.