Kick The Bucket

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Kick the bucket

To die.

“While I was on my holidays, all my pets kicked the bucket.”

Origin
An older meaning of bucket refers to the wooden beam frame  used for hanging animal carcass which was to be slaughtered. Not unnaturally they were likely to spasm after death and ‘kick the bucket’.

 

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