sometime before I popped off

pop off phrasal verb HUMOROUS
to die:
You're all just waiting till I pop off so you can get your hands on my money.

Doris Lessing

終於快九十歲時得獎

QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"Either they were going to give it to me sometime before I popped off or not at all."
DORIS LESSING, after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature.