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How did "xoxo" come to mean hugs and kisses? ... How did red carpet come to be synonymous with royal treatment? ... Where did the term "kick the bucket" come from?
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someone contemplating suicide would place a rope around a rafter, place the noose around their neck and stand on a bucket. The bucket would then be kicked away and the person would hang until dead. hence the phrase "kick the bucket"
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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. So people used the phrase 'kick the bucket' when someone died. ... Where did the phrase "Nothing to sneeze at" come from?; People in older times imagined that a sneeze cleared the...
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: 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. So people used the phrase 'kick the bucket' when someone died.
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i think it's because long time ago when you try to hang someone, they would stand on a bucket with the rope tied around their neck, and then someone would kick the bucket underneath them, and well you know the rest...
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"kick the bucket" has been documented as slang for "to die" since 1785, when Captain Francis Grose included it in his "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," no one has been able to prove its origin with absolute certainty.
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Kick The Bucket; Kick the bucket means to die. Possibly refers to people who committed suicide by attaching a rope to a beam, then standing on a bucket and and kicking it away so they would hang themselves. This from a website visitor: The idiom kicking the bucket comes from a suicidal technique used years ago.
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[Q] From Fred: Could you please tell me where the phrase kick the bucket originated? ... The other explanation, much less credible, is that the bucket is the one on which a suicide stands when hanging himself — kick away the bucket and the job is done. I’ve even seen the story attached specifically to the sad end of...
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Dear Evan: My question pertains to the origin of the saying "Kick the Bucket." A few of us in my group here at GE in Schenectady, NY regularly enjoy coming up with and finding out the meaning of different phrases and expressions used ... I don't think anyone is likely to come up with a definitive "first use" of this phrase.
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