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.
See also:
  • 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