| 释义 |
hand in one's dinner pail informal Die: old Syd handed in his dinner pail over twenty-five years ago...- He remarked that it would probably be the last car he buys until he gives up driving or, in his words, ‘hands in his dinner pail’.
- I am now very confused about whether, when the time comes to hand in my dinner pail, my estate's tax bill is going to be greater or smaller than if I were run over by the proverbial bus tomorrow.
- So when the only other occupant of his hotel (future film producer Chuck Mulvell) hands in his dinner pail, Locke decides to switch places with the dead man and take over his life.
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