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How is the idiom kick the bucket derived? Where did kick thr bucket idiom come from? Kick the bucket idiom where did it come from? Where did the saying kick the bucket originate? Where did the phrase kick the bucket originate?
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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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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 "Bleeding Heart" come from?; You may have heard this saying, but don't worry! It doesn't...
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There are two main theories about this one. One suggests that the word doesn’t refer to our modern bucket at all, but to a sixteenth century word that comes from the French buque, meaning a yoke or similar piece of wood. It is said that t...
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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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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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A person standing on a pail or bucket with their head in a slip noose would kick the bucket so as to commit suicide. The OED, however, says this is mainly speculative; ... Many other explanations of this saying have been given by persons who are unacquainted with Catholic custom"
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Where did the saying "kick the bucket," when a person dies, come from? ... She then removes the support, usually by kicking it away. If she stands on a bucket (meaning "pail" this time) or washtub to get herself into hanging position, she would "kick the bucket" away to let herself dangle.
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