The saying " he's tailed it" meaning he's died, where did it originate anyone?

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Jogon wrote: Shuffled off, another From Hamlet "shuffled off this mortal coil".

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"Snuffed it" years ago when extinguishing a candle.

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What about Cheyne-Stoking? As seen in the excellent 'Dead Mans Shoes' where it is a somewhat cryptic warning to the films characters that they are indeed breathing their last breaths.
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Chain stokers are devices for automatic firing of coal-fired industrial boilers, which run continually at pre-determined rates using small coal. Possibly the connection?

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jim wrote: Chain stokers are devices for automatic firing of coal-fired industrial boilers, which run continually at pre-determined rates using small coal. Possibly the connection? No,it is the Cheyne Stokes pattern of breathing:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyne%E2% ... ationwhich apart from associated with sleep apnoea can also be the taking the final breath,see my earlier post on croaking as well.    
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From what I can ascertain the pattern of breathing related to Cheyne-Stokes is characterised by the affected person taking rapid smaller breaths rising to slightly larger breaths then descending back to smaller breaths with a sustained pause inbetween before the cycle repeats again.
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Steve Jones wrote: jim wrote: Chain stokers are devices for automatic firing of coal-fired industrial boilers, which run continually at pre-determined rates using small coal. Possibly the connection? No,it is the Cheyne Stokes pattern of breathing.     I bow to your and jonleeds' superior knowledge Steve. Shame though, I could envision images to nearly match the repeated shots of railway coal wagons heading north in "The Ladykillers"!.

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"Carked it" ?    

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Lilysmum wrote: "Carked it" ?     I last heard this term "Tailed it" when I was in my teens around 1957-60. Unfortunately it was not very nice and referred in a boastful way of "having had sex with"! I have never heard it in any other context. Quite a few people I worked with at that time used this term.
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