Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1911-05-19 | Page 6 | "Kicking the Bucket"

kicking the boucket Bucka fc when wo we speak facetiously of some one for or whom we have no reverence as having kicked the bucket we a phrase that would seem to oo do a piece of latter day slang but as a matter of fact it dates back to old england when about the tha year 1725 one Dol bolsover hung himself to a beam while standing on the bottom of a bucket and then kicked the bucket hway away although at first used only in cases of suicide it has haa been applied in the course of years yeara to any death without distinction