See kick the bucket on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "There are many theories as to where this idiom comes from, but the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) suggests the following:\n* A person standing on a pail or bucket with their head in a slip noose would kick the bucket so as to commit suicide. The OED, however, says that this is mainly speculative;\n* An archaic use of bucket was a beam from which a pig is hung by its feet prior to being slaughtered, and to kick the bucket originally signified the pig's death throes. The OED finds this a more plausible theory.\nAnother theory is given by Roman Catholic Bishop Abbot Horne.",
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"ref": "2015 April 22, Sam Jordison, quoting Jan Morris, “Jan Morris talks about Venice”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "My posthumous book Allegorizings, which will go to press in London and New York the minute I kick the bucket, is loosely governed by my growing conviction that almost nothing in life is only what it seems. It contains nothing revelatory at all.",
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"word": "bite the dust"
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"word": "buy the farm"
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"word": "die"
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"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "skop die emmer"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "gee die gees"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "steek die lepel in die dak"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "af",
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"sense": "to die",
"word": "gaan bokveld toe"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"word": "verwissel die tydelike met die ewige"
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"sense": "to die",
"word": "drodhi këmbën"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"sense": "to die",
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"word": "estirar la pota"
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"sense": "to die",
"word": "翹辮子"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"roman": "qiào biànzi",
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"word": "翘辫子"
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"sense": "to die",
"word": "potkaista tyhjää"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "passer l’arme à gauche"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "casser sa pipe"
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"word": "den Löffel abgeben"
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"word": "elpatkol"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "felrúgja a gyertyát"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"lang": "Hungarian",
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"word": "beadja a kulcsot"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
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"word": "feldobja a bakancsot"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"lang": "Hungarian",
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"word": "feldobja a talpát"
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"sense": "to die",
"word": "tirare le cuoia"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"roman": "kutabaru",
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"roman": "jukda",
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"sense": "to die",
"word": "nolikt karoti"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"word": "legge inn årene"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"word": "gå i pennalet"
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"roman": "riq-e rahmat râ sar kešidan",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "ریق رحمت را سر کشیدن"
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"word": "pójść do piachu"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"word": "przenieść się na łono Abrahama"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"word": "fajtnąć"
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"word": "kojfnąć"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"word": "pójść do Abrahama na piwo"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"word": "pożegnać się ze światem"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"sense": "to die",
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"word": "dokonać żywota"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"sense": "to die",
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"word": "przenieść się do Krainy Wiecznych Łowów"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"sense": "to die",
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"word": "zejść"
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"sense": "to die",
"word": "bater as botas"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"sense": "to die",
"word": "da colțul"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "da ortul popii"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"note": "сыгра́ть в я́щик (sygrátʹ v jáščik, literally “play into the casket”)",
"sense": "to die"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"note": "почить в бозе (počitʹ v boze, literally “sleep in God”) (solemn or ironical)",
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"roman": "prestavitʹsja",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "преставиться"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"note": "приказа́ть до́лго жить (prikazátʹ dólgo žitʹ, literally “order to live long”)",
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"note": "откинуть копыта (otkinutʹ kopyta, literally “throw away the hooves”)",
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"note": "протяну́ть ноги (protjanútʹ nogi, literally “stretch the legs”)",
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"note": "дать ду́ба (datʹ dúba, literally “give some oak”)",
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"note": "коньки́ отбро́сить (konʹkí otbrósitʹ, literally “throw away the skates”)",
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"word": "oditi med krilatce"
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"word": "estirar la pata"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to die",
"word": "colgar los guayos"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "irse al otro barrio"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "colgar los tenis"
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{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "petatearse"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "kila runt hörnet"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "ta ner skylten"
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"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "bālcī tannu",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "బాల్చీ తన్ను"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "mezarı boylamak"
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"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "nalları dikmek"
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"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "cicio'r bwced"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to break down beyond repair",
"word": "hajota lopullisesti"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 94",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to break down beyond repair",
"word": "endgültig im Eimer sein"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 94",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to break down beyond repair",
"word": "beadja a kulcsot"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 94",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to break down beyond repair",
"word": "eyðilegjast"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 94",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to break down beyond repair",
"word": "deyja"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 94",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to break down beyond repair",
"word": "drepast"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 94",
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "saripaḍisalāgadaṣṭu hāḷāda",
"sense": "to break down beyond repair",
"word": "ಸರಿಪಡಿಸಲಾಗದಷ್ಟು ಹಾಳಾದ"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 94",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "gojangnada",
"sense": "to break down beyond repair",
"word": "고장나다"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 94",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nakrytʹsja mednym tazom",
"sense": "to break down beyond repair",
"word": "накрыться медным тазом"
}
]
}
],
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"etymology_text": "There are many theories as to where this idiom comes from, but the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) suggests the following:\n* A person standing on a pail or bucket with their head in a slip noose would kick the bucket so as to commit suicide. The OED, however, says that this is mainly speculative;\n* An archaic use of bucket was a beam from which a pig is hung by its feet prior to being slaughtered, and to kick the bucket originally signified the pig's death throes. The OED finds this a more plausible theory.\nAnother theory is given by Roman Catholic Bishop Abbot Horne.",
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"related": [
{
"word": "bucket list"
}
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"English euphemisms",
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"English idioms",
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"text": "The old horse finally kicked the bucket.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2015 April 22, Sam Jordison, quoting Jan Morris, “Jan Morris talks about Venice”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "My posthumous book Allegorizings, which will go to press in London and New York the minute I kick the bucket, is loosely governed by my growing conviction that almost nothing in life is only what it seems. It contains nothing revelatory at all.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"glosses": [
"To die."
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"(idiomatic, euphemistic, colloquial, humorous) To die."
],
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{
"word": "bite the dust"
},
{
"word": "buy the farm"
},
{
"word": "die"
}
],
"tags": [
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"euphemistic",
"humorous",
"idiomatic"
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"examples": [
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"text": "I think my sewing machine has kicked the bucket.",
"type": "example"
}
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"glosses": [
"To break down such that it cannot be repaired."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, colloquial, of a machine) To break down such that it cannot be repaired."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a machine"
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"idiomatic"
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"translations": [
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "skop die emmer"
},
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "gee die gees"
},
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "steek die lepel in die dak"
},
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "gaan bokveld toe"
},
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "verwissel die tydelike met die ewige"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "drodhi këmbën"
},
{
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "lipat e loa"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "estirar la pota"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "dinyar-la"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "翹辮子"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiào biànzi",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "翘辫子"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "zaklepat bačkorama"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "de pijp uit gaan"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "het loodje leggen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "potkaista tyhjää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "passer l’arme à gauche"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "casser sa pipe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "den Löffel abgeben"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "elpatkol"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "felrúgja a gyertyát"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "beadja a kulcsot"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "feldobja a bakancsot"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "feldobja a talpát"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "tirare le cuoia"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kutabaru",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "くたばる"
},
{
"code": "quc",
"lang": "K'iche'",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "rax kamikal"
},
{
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "sāyu",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "ಸಾಯು"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jukda",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "죽다"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"note": "뻗다 (ppeotda, literally “stretch out”)",
"sense": "to die"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "atdot galus"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "nolikt karoti"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "legge inn årene"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "gå i pennalet"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "riq-e rahmat râ sar kešidan",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "ریق رحمت را سر کشیدن"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "kopnąć w kalendarz"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wyciągnąć kopyta"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "przekręcić się"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "odwalić kitę"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wyciągnąć nogi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "pójść do piachu"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "przenieść się na łono Abrahama"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wykitować"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wykorkować"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zawinąć się"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "fajtnąć"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "kojfnąć"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "kipnąć"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "pójść do Abrahama na piwo"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "pożegnać się ze światem"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "dokonać żywota"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "przenieść się do Krainy Wiecznych Łowów"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "przenieść się w zaświaty"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to die",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zejść"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "bater as botas"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "da colțul"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "da ortul popii"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "сыгра́ть в я́щик (sygrátʹ v jáščik, literally “play into the casket”)",
"sense": "to die"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "почить в бозе (počitʹ v boze, literally “sleep in God”) (solemn or ironical)",
"sense": "to die"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prestavitʹsja",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "преставиться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "приказа́ть до́лго жить (prikazátʹ dólgo žitʹ, literally “order to live long”)",
"sense": "to die"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "откинуть копыта (otkinutʹ kopyta, literally “throw away the hooves”)",
"sense": "to die"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "протяну́ть ноги (protjanútʹ nogi, literally “stretch the legs”)",
"sense": "to die"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "дать ду́ба (datʹ dúba, literally “give some oak”)",
"sense": "to die"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "коньки́ отбро́сить (konʹkí otbrósitʹ, literally “throw away the skates”)",
"sense": "to die"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "otrčiť kopytá"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "otrčiť päty"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "vystrieť sa na doske"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "oditi med krilatce"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "estirar la pata"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "colgar los guayos"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "irse al otro barrio"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "colgar los tenis"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "petatearse"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "kila runt hörnet"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "ta ner skylten"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "bālcī tannu",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "బాల్చీ తన్ను"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "mezarı boylamak"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "nalları dikmek"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to die",
"word": "cicio'r bwced"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to break down beyond repair",
"word": "hajota lopullisesti"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to break down beyond repair",
"word": "endgültig im Eimer sein"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to break down beyond repair",
"word": "beadja a kulcsot"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to break down beyond repair",
"word": "eyðilegjast"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to break down beyond repair",
"word": "deyja"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to break down beyond repair",
"word": "drepast"
},
{
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "saripaḍisalāgadaṣṭu hāḷāda",
"sense": "to break down beyond repair",
"word": "ಸರಿಪಡಿಸಲಾಗದಷ್ಟು ಹಾಳಾದ"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "gojangnada",
"sense": "to break down beyond repair",
"word": "고장나다"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nakrytʹsja mednym tazom",
"sense": "to break down beyond repair",
"word": "накрыться медным тазом"
}
],
"word": "kick the bucket"
}
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