[Idiom] Egbert isn’t the sort of name most fellows would be seen dead in a ditch with.

[booklovers]

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In the above sentence the narrator is insinuating the name "Egbert" is not a common name, but what exactly the above sentence means?
How does the idiom 'dead in a ditch with" be in another situation, for example ?

It is from the novel 'Grey Mask' by Patricia Wentworh in 1929.

(I am not a native English speaker.)[/FONT]

 

[MikeNewYork]

The author is being critical of the name, either because it is unusual or unpopular.

 

[booklovers]

Thank you so much.

 

[J&K Tutoring]

Dead in a ditch has a certain poetical quality to it.

I've more often heard a similar idiom: 'I wouldn't be caught dead...' as in: 'I wouldn't be caught dead wearing something like that!'