drop off the twig

drop off the twig
vb
to die. A lighthearted expression in vogue in Britain since the late 1980s. Bird imagery features in several colourful, pre-dominantly working-class phrases in Brit-ish colloquial use, such as 'sick as a parrot' or rattle someone's cage.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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