| 单词 | kick the bucket |
| 释义 | kick the bucket (once / 64587 pages) v When you kick the bucket, you die. Kick the bucket is an extremely informal way to describe death. If you're looking for a delicate way to talk about someone dying, kick the bucket isn't the right way to do it — it's a blunt and casual, almost joking way to say "die." The origin is a little blurry, though most experts think it stems from the Old French buquet, a trébuchet or beam from which slaughtered — and possibly still kicking — animals were hung. WORD FAMILYkick the bucket: kicked the bucket, kicking the bucket, kicks the bucket USAGE EXAMPLES"We will part only when one of us kicks the bucket." BBC(Dec 18, 2016) But who this year kicked the bucket with as much oomph as this kid? New York Times(Dec 07, 2016) The whole premise of Kargman’s sixth book is that graves — death, kicking the bucket, your personal expiration date — are actually more motivating than morbid. Washington Post(Sep 15, 2016) v pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102 Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad stop operating or functioning diesuffer or face the pain of death be born come into existence through birth abort cease development, die, and be aborted asphyxiate, stifle, suffocatebe asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen buy it, pip outbe killed or die; drowndie from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating predeceasedie before; die earlier than famish, starvedie of food deprivation falldie, as in battle or in a hunt succumb, yieldbe fatally overwhelmed strangledie from strangulation change state, turn undergo a transformation or a change of position or action |
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