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Definition of Buy the farm
1. Verb. Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life. "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
Specialized synonyms: Abort, Asphyxiate, Stifle, Suffocate, Buy It, Pip Out, Drown, Predecease, Famish, Starve, Fall, Succumb, Yield
Generic synonyms: Change State, Turn
Related verbs: Break, Break Down, Conk Out, Die, Fail, Give Out, Give Way, Go, Go Bad, Die
Derivative terms: Decease, Decedent, Death, Death, Death, Death, Death, Death, Exit, Expiration, Going, Passing
Antonyms: Be Born
Also: Die Down, Die Down, Die Off, Die Out
Definition of Buy the farm
1. Verb. (idiomatic US informal euphemistic) To die; generally, to die in battle or in a plane crash. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buy The Farm
Literary usage of Buy the farm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Müller-Walle Method of Lip-reading for the Deaf (Bruhn Lip-reading System) by Martha Emma Bruhn, Julius Müller-Walle (1915)
"The boy will buy the farm. I shall buy the sofa at the same shop. ... (d) They
say they may buy the farm. I will buy five pies at the shop for you. ..."
2. Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall, Robert F. Powell (1907)
"CHAPTER III HOW TO buy the farm BEFORE the purchase of the land for a home in
the country, some consideration ought to be given to probable increase in land ..."
3. The Kentucky Law Reporter by Kentucky Court of Appeals (1903)
"The appellant, Roseberry, was her son-in-law ; she and ber husband then made an
arrangement with Roseberry that he should buy the farm from ..."
4. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1887)
"... and was by him introduced to the land-owner as one who wanted to buy the farm,
if the delay in making the sale to the purchaser has not been caused by ..."
5. Proceedings by American Pomological Society (1913)
"Now to buy the farm is the first problem. Only a few can regard that as a question
that is simple; it is whether you get one at all or not . ..."
6. Proceedings of the ... Annual Conference Under the Auspices of the National by National Tax Association (1922)
"I was wondering when you were talking about six per cent how the average would
come out if he borrowed all the money to buy the farm. I have bought several ..."
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