Kick the Bucket 

Phrase used to say someone is dead or has deceased. Term is derived from when suicides were common by a person preparing to hang themself, and used a bucket to stand on, and then kicked the bucket when suicide was desired.

Ole' Charlie kicked the bucket today, we better prepare for his funeral.

Kick the Bucket by izytang November 16, 2003

kick the bucket 

The actual origin of the term is from England, and began in the later middle ages. A corpse would be laid out, and a bucket of holy water placed at its feet. Visitors could then sprinkle the deceased with Holy Water. Other explanations (suicide, execution) came later to explain an idiom, of which the origin of the term had ceased, mainly as a result of the English reformation.

"To Kick the Bucket" is explained by Bishop Abbot Horne in 1949, in his booklet "Relics of Popery" Catholic Truth Society. He adds "Many other explanations of this saying have been given by persons who are unaquainted with Catholic Custom"

kick the bucket by Dr Michael Foster October 3, 2007

kick the bucket 

One of many synonyms for "die".

"My grandma died on May 12th of 2000. She was gonna try to hold off until May 17th, which was when my grandpa died, but ultimately she kicked the bucket."
-me

kick the bucket by Dave September 27, 2004

kick the bucket 

Pigs to be slaughtered are bled, that is the blood is drained from the body. One way this is accomplished is to hang the pig upside down from a bar (by one foot) that used to be known as a "buchet," a French word for it. The pig's throat was cut or opened with a sharp spike, and it would rapidly be bled. In its death throes, it would always kick the buchet.

The old man fianlly kicked the bucket.

kick the bucket by Lorn A. W. August 14, 2004

Kick the bucket 

Die of covid

Please, don’t kick the bucket

Kick the bucket by Scienceethan June 5, 2020

Kick the bucket 

A farming phrase linked with starvation, whether you the milker of the animal or the animal itself kick the bucket the contents of value dispense to nothing and the recipient of the usually milk in this actual analogy goes hungry often the weakest or youngest such as babies with a limited amount of food they are able to eat making milk a primary necessary food source

When the cow kick the bucket after improperly grabbing its udder we all went hungry that day

Kick the bucket by Wisconsin farmers March 14, 2022

Kick the bucket list 

noun/a list of life long projects that a person has had in process or in the back of their mind, but have never completed.

Wow! I just turned seventy and still have things I want to do. I better create a kick the bucket list.

Kick the bucket list by Larry Horist September 1, 2013