c. 1400, from Old French rectifier, literally "to make straight" (14c.), from Late Latin rectificare "make right," from Latin rectus "straight" (from PIE root *reg- "move in a straight line," with derivatives meaning "to direct in a straight line") + combining form of facere "to make" (from PIE root *dhe- "to set, put"). Related: Rectified; rectifying.
From kick the bucket (“to die”) + list, hence a “list of things to do before you die”. The term was coined by American and British screenwriter Justin Zackham in his screenplay for the 2007 film The Bucket List. Zackham had created his own list called “Justin’s List of Things to Do Before I Kick the Bucket” which he then shortened to “Justin’s Bucket List”. The first item on his list was to have a screenplay produced at a major Hollywood studio. After a time, it occurred to him that the notion of a “bucket list” could itself be fodder for a film, so he wrote a screenplay about two dying men racing to complete their own bucket lists with the time they had left. Articles about the movie are the earliest known uses.
なぜbucket(バケツ)かというと、「kick the bucket」(「死ぬ」を意味するイディオム)から。2007年に公開された映画のタイトルが、The Bucket Listで、これが始まりとのこと。
この映画の脚本家のJustin Zackhamは、「Justin’s List of Things to Do Before I Kick the Bucket」(死ぬ前にやっておきたいことのリスト)というものを作っていてこの考えを映画でもつかったそう。
3. To come very close to some outcome or result, often (though not always) a very bad one.
The CEO has been flirting with disaster with her off-the-cuff comments to the press lately.
The up-and-coming golf pro has flirted with success over the past few years, but he's yet to manage a major tour victory.
対日戦勝記念日(たいにちせんしょうきねんび)とは、連合国の第二次世界大戦における日本に対する戦勝記念日である。英語: Victory over Japan Day, VJ Day, Victory in the Pacific Day, VP Day とも言うが、略称としては VJ Day が一般的である。