cock one's toes
English
editVerb
editcock one's toes (third-person singular simple present cocks one's toes, present participle cocking one's toes, simple past and past participle cocked one's toes)
- (UK, Ireland, idiomatic, slang) To die.
- Synonym: (Australia) turn up one's toes
- 1951, The Irish Monthly, volume 79, page 191:
- I'll be well pickled by the time I'm ready to cock my toes!
- 1955, Ireland. Oireachtas. Dáil, Díosbóireachtaí Párlaiminte: Tuairisc Oifigiúil, volume 151, page 123:
- Captain Giles: Fianna Fáil would like to see you cock your toes but I hope they will not be able.
References
edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary