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The first is, pure and simple, an idiom; proof that bucket comes from bouchet, some sort of a crossbar from which hogs were suspended before slaughter (which they kicked in their death agonies) is lacking.
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It appears that the uncooperative beasts were known to "kick the bouchet, or bucket" in their death throes.
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STREAKING INDIANS RIP JAYS The line has been drawn, we are pleased to note, against participation by athletes in the face of major organ impairment, reported as INJURED LIVERS MAY NOT PLAY There is an etymology afoot for kick the bucket holding that bucket comes from French bouchet, some sort of frame on which animals were strung up for slaughtering in the abattoirs of Paris (or of the Midwest).
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