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bought the farm

vb. (context idiomatic US informal euphemistic English) (en-past of: buy the farm): died; often refers to death in battle or by a plane crash.

Usage examples of "bought the farm".

So they bought the farm: Greg had been a picker before often enough, a good supply of ready cash during the PSP years.

Sharon told me that Craig wept like a baby, when they thought Sandy had bought the farm in Indochina, and she and the kids wound up comforting him.

Morton went on to say that shortly after he had bought the farm, he did some repair work on the house.

I am trying to be objective about why I acted as I did, why I bought the farm.

The tenants, not really tenants, had been squatting on Bays Mountains when Cary McPheeter bought the farm.

He and Mary had purchased the tractor new when they had bought the farm, and had bought all of the attachments that they could afford to go with it.

I'd a hunch that I had just bought the farm and that I was about to die without opportunity to reveal my insight into the nature of reality: The Pattern did not care about the children of Amber any more than the Logrus did about those of the Courts of Chaos.

My face was spattered with gasoline and I figured then and there that I had just bought the farm.

He bought the farm and she doesn't want to do high-risk flying while her kids are little.