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Anybody here know the answer to this question which is a bit bewildering?

Don't know how long the saying has been in use, but they did say that aircraft tail gunners were at the greatest danger of death in wartime. Might there be a connection?    

mayslass wrote: Anybody here know the answer to this question which is a bit bewildering? Hi "mayslass", I never associated the term with dying but we used the expression with regard to running away from someone or something. It was usually preceded by the word "high", as in "high tailed it". That's not to say the term that someone has died is wrong.

In Leeds the expression "Tailed 'em" was and still is to say that he or she has died. i always thought that it wa linked to "Tail end", as in tail end of the queue but as said earlier the tail gunner in bomber aircraft was the mot dangerous position.    sadly i am getting to hear this expression more and more recently.

Don't know of that one"Shook a seven" (as in not on the dice) or "kicked the bucket", "fell off perch" most common to my peers.

'Tailed it' seems new to me also. 'Pegged it' is another expression for someone who has died.

Jogon wrote: Don't know of that one"Shook a seven" (as in not on the dice) or "kicked the bucket", "fell off perch" most common to my peers. I thought to "shake a seven" or "throw a seven" meant to go to heaven as in heaven /seven rhyming.

"Thrown a seven" may refer to dice games such as craps, where two dice are used.

"Pegged out" derives from cribbage.I must admit I had never heard "tailed it" until this thread.

One I remember is popped his clogs Has in did you know so and so popped his glogs anyone else heard this.?