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Buy the farm   /baɪ ðə fɑrm/   Listen
Buy the farm

verb
1.
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.  Synonyms: cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it.  "The children perished in the fire" , "The patient went peacefully" , "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"






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"Buy the farm" Quotes from Famous Books



... to-night," said Bongrand, "our lease will get known, Massin will put in a fresh claim, and I shall lose this chance of liquidation which I am anxious to make. So if you don't take my offer I shall go at once to Melun, where some farmers I know are ready to buy the farm with their eyes shut." ...
— Ursula • Honore de Balzac

... haven't a dozen now, we can do it with two men and a boy, if we have time. The next boat will not come down for a week. But I wanted to see you about another matter. Kit wants to buy the farm of me, and I don't think I own it. We ...
— Field and Forest - The Fortunes of a Farmer • Oliver Optic



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