Do not "give away your spoon" yet
There is a German idiom "den Löffel abgeben", literally meaning "to give away the spoon", meaning "to die".
The idiom comes from the fact that until the late middle ages a spoon was a personal tool (especially metal ones) that you carried with you and handed down to your kids like an expensive watch, meaning that you had died.
Does anyone know a similar expression in English? ("to kick the bucket" comes close, I guess)?
The idiom comes from the fact that until the late middle ages a spoon was a personal tool (especially metal ones) that you carried with you and handed down to your kids like an expensive watch, meaning that you had died.
Does anyone know a similar expression in English? ("to kick the bucket" comes close, I guess)?
