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Where did the expression “kick the Bucket” originate?

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Where did the expression “kick the Bucket” originate?

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One theory as to why, albeit with little evidence to support it, is that the phrase originates from the notion that people hanged themselves by standing on a bucket with a noose around their neck and then kicking the bucket away.