mine is kicking the bucket (for english) or looking at the radishes from below (in german)
those make me chuckle sometimes
“And if they bury you ass-up, I’ll have a place to park my bike.”
Kicked the bucket.
My dad had a good sense of humor. When he died, he left us his “Kicked the bucket list” with all of the information about accounts we needed to cancel, put in my mom’s name, etc. Having all that in one place made it a lot easier to work through all that shit while we we grieving.
A favorite of mine is “zaklepal bačkorama” ~ he clacked with his slippers. It’s really fun to say in Czech
On the same note, a Norwegian saying is “han/hun har parkert trøflene” - “he/she has parked their slippers”
Signed out.
Back to the mud - Joe Abercrombie
“it may be years It may be hours But sooner or later We all push up flowers.” - Florist, Grim Fandango
“Pushing daisies” is a very good one.
“Hij heeft een tuintje op zijn buik.” = “He has a garden on his stomach.” is a Dutch saying. I think it is specifically from Amsterdam
Snuffed it.
Some nonsensical ones in Russian: “сыграл в ящик” (“played the box game”), “откинул копыта” (“kicked back their hooves”), and “склеил ласты” (“glued their flippers/fins”)
Graduated
Parkere trøflene - park the slippers
My family just says “left us.” “Grandad left us in 2009.”
Dogs, though, cross the Rainbow Bridge.
He bought the farm. The tragic backstory being that the man was farming on land he was still paying off a loan for and his life insurance pays for the farm for the widow (though that wasn’t even always the case).
The Dead Parrot Sketch has a few of my faves
“Gone up and joined the choir invisible” is a winner.
Brown bread: an instance of cockney rhyming slang for “dead”. Difficult to use outside of the UK.
Mortally challenged: always good in a heavily moderated or corporate environment where every negative is somehow lexically spun into a positive, no matter how ludicrous.
One way ticket to Switzerland: hopefully a soon-to-be-outdated joke about taking advantage of their more liberal assisted dying laws.
