Kick The Bucket

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Kick The Bucket

Postby boxcar » Fri May 20, 2011 3:00 pm

In the English expression to kick the bucket, a listener knowing only the meanings of kick and bucket would be unable to deduce the expression's true meaning: to die. Although this idiomatic phrase can, in fact, actually refer to kicking a bucket, native speakers of English rarely use it so. Cases like this are "opaque idioms'
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Re: Kick The Bucket

Postby johnhodges » Fri Nov 04, 2011 9:03 am

He kick the bucket= he died!!!
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Re: Kick The Bucket

Postby entrepreneurweek » Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:17 am

"Kick the bucket" is really a new word I have ever seen. But I don't understand the meaning of the word.Is it true that meaning of the word is he died. I am not sure.
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