hand in your dinner pail

hand in your dinner pail
   to die
   The common imagery of making no more demand on terrestrial resources:
    Uncle Wilberforce having at last handed in his dinner pail... [he] had come into possession of a large income. (Wodehouse, 1930 — he was the heir)

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