drop off the hooks

verb

To die.

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Meanings

verbdrop off the hooks (third-person singular simple present drops off the hooks, present participle dropping off the hooks, simple past and past participle dropped off the hooks)

present singular third person drops off the hooks · participle present dropping off the hooks · participle past dropped off the hooks · past dropped off the hooks

  1. colloquialeuphemistichumorousidiomaticTo die.

    "You'd do harm if you dared to," the woman said. "You'd like to kill him. […] We don't want him to drop off the hooks. Not much!'

    1921, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, The Great Pearl Secret

    Synonyms: bite the dust, buy the farm, kick the bucket, assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be like the the One

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo die.

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Also see
die
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Chicago

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