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Idiom KICK THE BUCKET
Definition to die
Examples
  1. I plan on spending all my money before I kick the bucket. I’m not going to leave a penny of it to my relatives.
  2. Your father hasn’t yet made a will. He doesn’t plan on kicking the bucket anytime soon.
  3. The old woman was a person everyone in the neighborhood disliked. There were not too many mourners when she kicked the bucket.
Extra Info

The expression can be either disparaging or light-hearted when used about oneself or one’s relatives (sentences 1 and 2), or disrespectful and impolite when used about someone else (sentence 3).

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