stick (one's) spoon in the wall

1. To move into a new place of residence. The phrase refers to an outdated practice of hanging a pouch for small tools on the wall of one's home. A: "Has she stuck her spoon in the wall?" B: "Yes, and she seems to be settling into her new place nicely."

2. To die. Did you hear that Walter stuck his spoon in the wall? What a shame. I think the funeral is next Tuesday.

词组	stick (one's) spoon in the wall
释义	stick (one's) spoon in the wall stick (one's) spoon in the wall 1. To move into a new place of residence. The phrase refers to an outdated practice of hanging a pouch for small tools on the wall of one's home. A: "Has she stuck her spoon in the wall?" B: "Yes, and she seems to be settling into her new place nicely." 2. To die. Did you hear that Walter stuck his spoon in the wall? What a shame. I think the funeral is next Tuesday. See also: spoon, stick, wall Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: walk the chalk make fish of one and flesh of another midnight burn the midnight oil burn the midnight oil, to in soaped-pig fashion Anne Queen Anne is dead Queen Anne's dead the Dutch have taken Holland
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