Idiom trickery

[lettered]

Can you tell me what you mean when you say "bite the big one"?
And is it different from "bought the big one"?

Does either one mean to die? 'Cause. I need to make a fish joke.

Comments

[jgracio.livejournal.com]

According to Google it can mean that it sucks (it's bad), to die or to perform oral sex on a male, depending on the site.

So... err... *shrugs* :D

[skipthedemon.livejournal.com]

I've usually heard "bite the big one", jwhich ust is defintely a idiom for dying. "Going to the fish bowl in the sky" I think is my favorite fish death idiom.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

"Bought the big one" is dying. We don't bitwe big ones in my neck of the woods (unless we get lucky, but let's say no more about that.)

[my_daroga]

My first instinct is that "bought the big one" is to die, and "bite the big one" is to suck (bad). As in, "that bites" vs. "he bought it last night in that alley."

[rahirah]

To bite the big one is die. Or less frequently, to fail or be unpleasant in a spectacular way.

[alleynyc.livejournal.com]

I think they both mean to die.

[pjgale.livejournal.com]

oooooohhhh! Read that you were writing a new spangel with hookers and warlords and sex? I must now start checking your lj obsessively. I do that! It's a problem.

[pjgale.livejournal.com]

I hope you don't mind that I friended you so I can do my obsessive checking thingy for your new spangel!