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“To Kick the Bucket”

May 18, 2014April 22, 2014 by admin

To kick the bucket means, quite simply, to die.

It’s a totally informal expression; a mildly disrespectful, slightly humorous euphemistic slang term that at least in my experience is used to take some of the sting out of death.

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