To kick the bucket is an English idiom, considered a euphemistic, informal, or slang term meaning “to die”. Its origin remains unclear, though there have been several theories.

Overcome or give up habitual use, especially of narcotics. For example, Smoking is addictive; it’s not easy to kick, or If he doesn’t kick the habit, he may not make it through school. This idiom uses kick in the sense of “get rid of.” [

to give up something harmful that you have done for a long time: She used to be a heavy smoker but she kicked the habit last year.

A batter who steps away from home plate with his leading foot (usually in fear of being struck by a pitched ball) instead of a straight-ahead stride is said to “step in the bucket”.

A person standing on a pail or bucket with their head in a slip noose would kick the bucket so as to commit suicide. 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 phrase is said to be Scots in origin. The earliest written example of the phrase is from the 1719 Epistle to Ramsay by the Scottish poet William Hamilton: The bonny Lines therein thou sent me, How to the nines they did content me.

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: to go quickly and directly at or to (something or someone) He made a beeline for the kitchen.

To have a bee in one’s bonnet means to be obsessed with a certain idea, to be preoccupied with something. The term is derived from the Scottish idiom a head full of bees.

It is actually “beeline.” Beeline means a straight or direct course. The word comes from the belief that once bees have collected nectar, they take the most direct course to their hive. The term was first coined in 1830.

informal. : for a very long time They’ll be arguing about this till the cows come home.

It is said to come from the days when rats were common pests and carriers of disease. Dogs were prized for their ability to smell out and destroy them. A dog which began to sniff around might well have smelt a rat, and this idea was transferred to a person who was suspicious of something.

: very happy or amused I was tickled pink to see her.

Face meaning: very happy ; Example: He was a yellow-bellied cowboy cross… It go in the idioms Dictionary battery at 15 % or lower through.!: He was tickled blue meaning yellow-bellied cowboy 2. to touch someone while wiggling one ‘ s no even!

If you want to make tickling more pleasurable, consider these tips:

1. Tickle areas that are less sensitive such as the palms, top of the feet, and back of the head.
2. Tickle slowly and gently.
3. Tickle with a feather instead of your hands.
4. Don’t be rough or aggressive — keep it playful.

informal. : to interest or attract someone Do you see anything on the menu that tickles your fancy?

The Dictionary of Cliches by James Rogers (Ballantine Books, New York, 1985) has an earlier origin: “Tickle your fancy. Please, divert or amuse you. It is a more delicate image than the companion phrase ‘strike your fancy. ‘ Yet in 1774 Abraham Tucker characterized the thought as vulgar.

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noun One who has a tickle or unsteady brain, as one intoxicated.

If you thought it was impossible to die of laughter and that tickling was always harmless, you’d be wrong. This horrible torture method can lead to death by aneurysm. It may sound like a joke, but tickling is a legitimate torture method that, in the most extreme cases, can even result in death.