Idiom
hand in one's dinner pail
Meaning
To die.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The old dog finally handed in his dinner pail.”
“The town was shocked when the local baker handed in his dinner pail after fifty years of service.”
“Following a long and weary life spent laboring in the fields, the patriarch quietly handed in his dinner pail during the first frost of winter.”
Examples
simple
“The old dog finally handed in his dinner pail.”
contextual
“The town was shocked when the local baker handed in his dinner pail after fifty years of service.”
complex
“Following a long and weary life spent laboring in the fields, the patriarch quietly handed in his dinner pail during the first frost of winter.”
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