2006-11-03 07:54:20 · 22 answers · asked by daijanorwood 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
To 'kick the bucket' means to die
2006-11-03 08:01:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To kick the bucket is to die, and the saying came about particularly by someone committing suicide by standing on a bucket with a noose around the neck and then kicking the bucket away...
2006-11-03 16:05:42 · answer #2 · answered by blondie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The wooden frame that slaughtered animals were hung from is known as a bucket. The death spasms of the animals caused them to kick the bucket.
2006-11-05 12:58:30 · answer #3 · answered by catdyer2005 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kicking the bucket means to die.
2006-11-03 16:02:08 · answer #4 · answered by Kirsty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The expression is attested to in particular by a citation in the Oxford English Dictionary: “The beam on which a pig is suspended after he has been slaughtered is called in Norfolk, even in the present day, a ‘bucket’. Since he is suspended by his heels, the phrase to ‘kick the bucket’ came to signify to die” (I can’t give you a date, as the editors just say it comes from a “modern newspaper”, a rather sniffy annotation they used a century ago for sources not considered quite kosher. But it was probably in the 1890s).
2006-11-03 16:11:22 · answer #5 · answered by Becka Gal 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It means a death has occured. If someone Kicked the bucket, it means they died.
2006-11-03 16:02:07 · answer #6 · answered by First Lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that the person has died other sayings kicking up the daisys and brown bread.
2006-11-03 17:44:48 · answer #7 · answered by momof3 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
long shot kicked the bucket DEAD
2006-11-04 13:00:13 · answer #8 · answered by SH1T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To become one with the force, to cease all neurological activity forever, to be IP banned from this world, to ascend to a higher plane of existence, to bite the wax tadpole....
2006-11-03 16:16:56 · answer #9 · answered by Acraz 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To die; to shuffle off this mortal coil; to snuff it; to pass away - can't think of the origin of the phrase, though.
2006-11-03 19:11:55 · answer #10 · answered by PAUL H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋