kicked the bucket

"I suspect my publishers, they're delightful people, but I think they wanted to get it out in a hurry just in case I kicked the bucket before it was time to release the thing."

“Since dinosaurs kicked the bucket, this is the biggest global warming event we have,” says Pincelli Hull, a paleoclimate scientist at Yale University.

I corrected him, reminding Morrie that he and I met because we had both briefly kicked the bucket.

Don’t ask why they slipped the Deadliest Woman Alive a slow-acting poison, or if that were their thing, why they didn’t lock themselves down for a night while she kicked the bucket.

To get the form, you need your doctor to certify that, in lay speak, they wouldn't be surprised if you kicked the bucket within six months.