| 单词 | to pop one's clogs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pop one's clogs P4. transitive. colloquial (chiefly British). [Perhaps after sense 9, although compare also sense 7b.] to pop one's clogs: to die; (of a thing) to cease to exist. ΚΠ 1970 Pick of Punch 186 He was forced to retire in 1933 after a disastrous Catholic/Protestant punch-up among the bugs. He's just popped his clogs. 1976 Times 14 Dec. 10/4 When she pops her slender clogs in next week's concluding part, who knows but that I may not shed a tear myself? 1983 G. MacDonald Fraser Pyrates vi. 108 It's either join us or pop your clogs. 1993 T. Barnes Taped (BNC) 127 ‘So is the company going bust?’ ‘Oh no, nothing like that. TVL's got problems, but no one says it's going to pop its clogs.’ 2003 Independent on Sunday 19 Oct. (Life Etc. section) 2/4 There's been precious little monumental waywardness in literary circles since Hemingway popped his clogs. < as lemmas |
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