catch the bus
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[edit]Originated on the alt.suicide.holiday Internet newsgroup in the 1990s.
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[edit]catch the bus (third-person singular simple present catches the bus, present participle catching the bus, simple past and past participle caught the bus)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see catch, the, bus.
- (euphemistic, chiefly Internet) To kill oneself deliberately; to commit suicide.
- 2000, (unknown), “catching the bus tonight..... I hope.....”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet):
- I have the tools for catching the bus, just not the nerve. Soft suicide I can do. Take some pills, no problem. But never do I succeed that way.
- 2004, everwestward, “Is suicide contagious? (was Re: Favorite Songs)”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet):
- If anyone's curious, here's a song my band recorded (totally raw... it never made it out of the studio). A friend of mine caught the bus, and this was my way of saying "Peace."
- 2010, Michael F. Clark, Life By Suicide, page 116:
- Anyway at the end of my day, I decided to give him a call because the worse thing that would happen is that I would have to catch the bus.
- 2011, Jake Vander Ark, Lighthouse Nights:
- this wasn't the first time he spoke of suicide--this was a suicide chat room after all […]
00sexboy00: tonights[sic] the night to catch the bus john! u been crying u pussy? ur slanty eyes are all red!
john squeezed them shut and nodded.
gabe wanted to reach a hand through the monitor to comfort his friend. but all he could do was type.