bucket : Idioms & Phrases


bucket along

  • verb move fast
    rush; hotfoot; belt along; cannonball along; race; step on it; hie; hasten; speed; pelt along; rush along.
    • He rushed down the hall to receive his guests
    • The cars raced down the street
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bucket seat

  • noun a low single seat as in cars or planes
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bucket shop

  • noun an unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm
  • noun (formerly) a cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket
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Buck"et shop`
Definitions
  1. An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc. Slang, U.S.
Webster 1913

dinner bucket

  • noun a pail in which a workman carries his lunch or dinner
    dinner pail.
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dredging bucket

  • noun a bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed
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Fire bucket

  • a bucket for carrying water to put out fires.
Webster 1913

kick the bucket

  • verb pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
    decease; give-up the ghost; pop off; perish; die; buy the farm; snuff it; choke; drop dead; pass away; expire; exit; croak; pass; go; conk; cash in one's chips.
    • She died from cancer
    • The children perished in the fire
    • The patient went peacefully
    • The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
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Lance bucket

  • (Cavalry), a socket attached to a saddle or stirrup strap, in which to rest the but of a lance.
Webster 1913

Plunger bucket

  • a piston, without a valve, in a pump.
Webster 1913

rain buckets

  • verb rain heavily
    rain cats and dogs; pelt; stream; pour.
    • Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!
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To kick the bucket

  • to die. Low
  • to lose one's life; to die. Colloq. & Low
Webster 1913

wine bucket

  • noun a bucket of ice used to chill a bottle of wine
    wine cooler.
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