Bucket list
bucket list – sostantivo
This is my bucket list of 100 things I hope to accomplish in my lifetime.
Telegraph Travel’s team of experts select the 25 experiences that should be on your “bucket list“.
Every one has a list of things they want to do before they die. Writing out a “bucket list” is the first step you can make towards accomplishing some of these goals.
Nel film del 2007 The Bucket List (distribuito in Italia col titolo Non è mai troppo tardi) Jack Nicholson e Morgan Freeman interpretano due malati terminali, provenienti da background molto diversi, che si trovano a dividere una stanza d’ospedale e decidono di realizzare, nel poco tempo che rimane loro da vivere, tutte le cose che avrebbero sempre voluto fare. L’idea ha preso piede rapidamente e oggi sono in molti a stilare una bucket list di cose da fare prima di morire, che in molti casi si riduce a una lista di obiettivi, posti da visitare, esperienze da vivere ecc.
Origini del termine
Secondo l’Oxford Dictionary il termine è stato coniato dagli sceneggiatori del film. Si tratta di un’espressione che deriva da kick the bucket, uno dei tanti eufemismi vagamente umoristici in uso in inglese per indicare il morire (tra gli altri ci sono hand in your dinner pail, buy the farm e turn up your toes). L’origine del modo di dire non è certa: secondo alcuni si riferisce all’animale portato al macello che dimenandosi scalcia il secchio in cui si raccoglierà il suo stesso sangue, secondo altri invece il riferimento è al suicidio (per impiccagione).
bucket list – noun
This is my bucket list of 100 things I hope to accomplish in my lifetime.
Telegraph Travel’s team of experts select the 25 experiences that should be on your “bucket list“.
Every one has a list of things they want to do before they die. Writing out a “bucket list” is the first step you can make towards accomplishing some of these goals.
In the 2007 film The Bucket List, Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play an unlikely couple thrown together by terminal illness who decide to spend the time they have left doing the things they have always wanted to do. The notion caught on and became incredibly popular; now people all around the globe have bucket lists which in many cases are simply lists of goals, desired experiences, places they want to visit and so on.
Origins
According to the OED, the film marks the first recorded use of the term, which should presumably be attributed to screenwriter Justin Zackham. It is based on kick the bucket, one of many darkly humorous euphemisms for death and dying in the English language (others include hand in your dinner pail, buy the farm, and turn up your toes). The origin of the expression is uncertain, with some suggesting it refers to a slaughtered animal kicking the bucket into which its blood is draining, while others assert that it refers to suicide.
