hand in your dinner pail
hand in (one's) dinner pail
euphemism To die. If they invent a hoverboard before I hand in my dinner pail, I'm definitely going to try it, no matter how old I am.
See also: dinner, hand, pail
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
hand in your dinner pail
die. informalA dinner pail was the bucket in which a workman formerly carried his dinner; compare with kick the bucket (at kick).
See also: dinner, hand, pail
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
- hand in (one's) dinner pail
- pail
- a dog's dinner
- done like a dog's dinner
- dinner basket
- hungry
- (it) (really) doesn't matter to me
- (it) makes no difference to me
- AAMOF
- as a matter of fact