To die, to kick the bucket, to shuffle off one’s mortal coil, to join the choir invisible. Used as a cynical or blunt way to say someone has died, or metaphorically, to describe someone collapsing from exhaustion or fainting.
Скрывали, сколько могли. Как раз яркое подтверждение, что скопытился уж на момент проболтавшегося Пронюшкина — точно.
They kept it secret as long as they could. Just a vivid confirmation that he had gone to meet his maker by the time Pronushkin said it, that’s for sure.
(michaelnacke @ twitter.com, 04/2022)
