buy the farm v.
to die.
![]() | AS XXX:2 116: BUY THE FARM; BUY A PLOT, v. phr. Crash fatally. | ‘Gloss. Air Force Sl.’ in|
![]() | Doom Pussy 168: Whoever he is, he bought the farm at the Green Apples today. | |
![]() | Army Times ‘Army Talk in Vietnam’ 10 Apr. n.p.: buy the farm: to be killed. Sometimes ‘buy the six-by-three farm.’. | |
![]() | New Yorker 15 Mar. 95: The only thing I can tell you is that two of my people have bought the farm, and if I don’t get it two more will. | |
![]() | Patriot Game (1985) 61: Harrington bought the ranch. | |
![]() | Paco’s Story (1987) 23: The whole company, except for this one cat, caught some mean kind of shit and every swinging dick but him bought the motherfucker. | |
![]() | London Fields 97: The dogs aren’t living as long as they used to. Nothing is. It’s weird. I mean, one expects snow-leopards and cockatoos and tsessebes to buy the farm eventually. But dogs? | |
![]() | Rent Boy 50: A lot of Bruce’s friends have like bought the farm from AIDS. | |
![]() | (con. 1975–6) Steel Toes 82: Al got shot, Cloud bought the farm, I got busted. | |
![]() | Plainclothes Naked (2002) 4: Till he bought the mall at ninety, Pop Lee snored like an idling diesel. | |
![]() | Widespread Panic 209: Bird bought the farm and bid us bye-bye. |