hop off

hop off
   to die
   Avian imagery. Formerly as hop the living and also, in modern use, as hop the twig:
    And so the Captain has 'hopped the living'? I thought he was going to live forever, and I half suspect someone has been soaping the stairs. (Ashton, 1991, quoting a 19thcentury letter)
    It's not often multi-millionaires hop their twig. (Bagley, 1982 — and even they do it only once)

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