| 单词 | to hand in one's dinner pail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hand (also, pass, turn) in one's dinner pail colloquial. to hand (also, pass, turn) in one's dinner pail: to die.Popularized by the works of P. G. Wodehouse. Apparently never an established phrase in the U.S. ΚΠ 1905 A. M. Binstead Mop Fair iv. 63 Evelyn Godolphin Mountprospect..passed in his dinner pail. 1922 P. G. Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert i. 14 A sliced ball, whizzing in at the open window, had come within an ace of incapacitating Raymond Parsloe Devine... Two inches, indeed, to the right and Raymond must inevitably have handed in his dinner-pail. 1964 P. G. Wodehouse Frozen Assets iii. 49 My godfather..recently turned in his dinner pail and went to reside with the morning stars. 2020 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 6 Dec. (Print & ed. 1) (Money section) 43 It very much depends on my life expectancy and..I would be happy to give myself the average for Australian males and assume that I will hand in my dinner pail in 2044. < as lemmas |
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