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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



Words linked to "Buy the farm" :   break, give out, predecease, stifle, break down, yield, drown, starve, change state, fail, buy it, asphyxiate, go bad, be born, succumb, suffocate, pip out, give way, conk out, abort, fall, famish, turn



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