kick the bucket是“翘辫子”的意思,里面有什么故事吗?死怎么会与bucket有关系呢?
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1Therearetwomaintheoriesaboutthisone.Onesuggeststhattheworddoesn’trefertoourmodernbucketatall,buttoasixteenthcenturywordthatesfromtheFrenchbuque,meaningayokeorsimilarpieceofwood.Itissaidthatthewordwasappliedinparticulartothebeamfromwhichapigwashunginordertobeslaughtered.Inevitably,thepigwouldstruggleduringtheprocess,andwouldkickthebuque.(第一个来源和法语buque音同,是横梁的意思,用来吊猪的,猪通常就死在上面.）