cock one's toes
A British and Irish slang idiom meaning to die — a phrase that evokes the image of a body's toes pointing upward in death as the muscles relax.
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A British and Irish slang idiom meaning to die — a phrase that evokes the image of a body's toes pointing upward in death as the muscles relax. The phrase is darkly humorous and deliberately euphemistic, typical of the British and Irish tendency to approach death with deadpan wit.
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(UK, Ireland, idiom, slang) To die.
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