get ticket punched
get one's ticket punched
Sl. to die; to be killed. (Literally, to be cancelled.) Poor Chuck got his ticket punched while he was waiting for a bus. Watch out there, or you'll get your ticket punched.
See also: get, punch, ticket
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- get one’s ticket punched
- get a ticket
- punch (someone or something) on (something)
- punch on
- round-trip ticket
- punch down
- buy someone’s woof ticket
- Annie Oakley
- knock (one) into (the middle of) next week
- knock someone into the middle of next week