kick the bucket

动词 kick the bucket:

1. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
   同义词：die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it

1. I hear poor old John's kicked the bucket.
   我听说可怜的约翰死了。