To kick the bucket is an English idiom considered a euphemistic, informal, or slang term meaning "to die".[1] Its origin remains unclear, though there have been several theories.
^Oxford Advanced Dictionary of Current English, 4th Ed. (1989).
To kickthebucket is an English idiom considered a euphemistic, informal, or slang term meaning "to die". Its origin remains unclear, though there have...
expression "bucket list" after he wrote his own "List of Things to do Before I KicktheBucket" and shortened it to "Justin's Bucket List". The first item...
on our project. → The beans were spilled on our project. (valid) Fixed The old man kickedthebucket. → *Thebucket was kicked (by the old man). (confusing)...
up bucket list in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bucket list may refer to: A list of activities to do before dying (i.e. "kickingthebucket") The Bucket...
specific to the use of English in different English-speaking countries. Kickthebucket: an informal term referring to someone's death Drop thebucket on: to...
screenplay for the film, inspired by his own "List of Things to do Before I KicktheBucket", which he shortened to "Justin's Bucket List". Zackham graduated...
on 2006-08-22. Retrieved 2011-04-17. KicktheBucket and Swing the Cat, p. PA474, at Google Books (based on the BBC television series Balderdash and Piffle)...
significance, such as "all rights reserved", "economical with the truth", "kickthebucket", and the like. It may be a euphemism, a saying or proverb, a fixed...
expression whose meaning can't be derived simply by hearing it, such as 'kickthebucket.'" Four-character idiom: Chengyu: Chinese four-character idioms Sajaseong-eo:...
English: to kickthebucket, which means to die rather than to hit a bucket with one's foot. In this example, that is an endocentric compound, the part of...
example, the entire phrase kickthebucket is represented by the meaning to die. The words kick and bucket separately do not contribute to the idiomatic...
Why could you still be alive but not kickthebucket? Why wouldn't you jump from the high building or jump into the river? Why just follow my steps to have...
to do before they die (i.e. "kickthebucket") or before they reach a life stage milestone (e.g., the end of childhood; the end of High School, etc.) An...
word comes from the Greek ἰδίωμα (idioma) – the distinctive style of a particular person. The traditional example is "kickthebucket" which is normally...
Marley and The Wailers (The Best of the Wailers) and enjoyed several successful hits with The Pioneers' "Long Shot KickTheBucket", and The Melodians'...
“Experiments' Destroyers” (Russian: «Разрушители экспериментов»), “KicktheBucket” (Russian: «Сыграл в ящик»), etc. In 2003, Ilyich became a member of...
The Beat — "Tears of a Clown" / "Ranking Full Stop" 7" CHS TT7 The Special AKA — "Too Much Too Young", "Guns of Navarone" / "Longshot KicktheBucket"...
He was developing the screenplay and he got pretty far along with it. And he said to me one day, 'Listen kid, if I kickthebucket you will do it.' And...
(such as the expression "to kickthebucket") and those whose source is widely known or symbolism easily understood but not often thought about (the idea...
stable word-groups with partially or fully transferred meanings ("to kickthebucket", “Greek gift”, “drink till all's blue”, “drunk as a fiddler (drunk...
affect the meaning of expressions; idioms like "kickthebucket" carry figurative or non-literal meanings that are not directly reducible to the meanings...
episodes from the American animated television series Looney Tunes Cartoons. The show premiered on May 27, 2020, on HBO Max. "Curse of the Monkeybird" premiered...
all for the community. In my view, you start life with nothing and you end it with nothing. I'd like to enjoy it all before I kickthebucket." His most...
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