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. informal
A 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
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See also:
  • 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