kicking the bucket
Meeting one's end
Kicking the bucket is a colloquial, often humorous way of saying dying: He finally kicked the bucket at ninety-three.
The phrase treats death with irreverence, making it useful when gravity feels unwelcome.
It appears most often in casual speech or dark comedy, rarely in solemn contexts.
- pushing up daisiesEuphemism for being dead
- deathCessation of life
- demiseCessation of existence
- biting the dustDying or failing completely
- funeral ritesCustoms for honoring deceased
expiration · passing · perish · meeting one's maker · crossed over · kicking off · end of life · decease · final curtain · mortality · six feet under · dirt nap · fatality · last rites · croaked · giving up the ghost · cessation · epitaphs
life status
kicking the bucketsurviving
Remaining alive or intact
being born · living · being alive · staying alive · coming to life
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