Castro kicking the bucket?

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07 Oct 2006, 7:51 pm

http://www.bigpond.com/news/breaking/content/20061008/1758046.asp

After surviving God knows how many CIA assassination attempts, amongst other things, Fidel Castro is apparently on the wane thanks to cancer. (Must've been all those cigars...)

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07 Oct 2006, 7:59 pm

I know this is off topic, but what exactly does kicking buckets have to do with dying? I never got the connection.

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07 Oct 2006, 8:14 pm

Actually, good question....

Oh, here's a possibility of where it came from from Wiktionary...

Wiktionary wrote:

There are many theories as to where this idiom comes from, but a plausible one is as follows:

A person standing on a pail or bucket with her head in a slip noose would kick the bucket so as to commit suicide;

Although it means "to kick the bucket" means to die past tense, I meant he is dying.

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07 Oct 2006, 9:03 pm

Vinzer wrote:

I know this is off topic, but what exactly does kicking buckets have to do with dying? I never got the connection.

It's just a figure of speech.

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