buy the farm

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English - Turkish
nalları dikmek
(deyim) ölmek
English - English
To die; generally, to die in battle or in a plane crash

That cat must have been twenty years old when he finally bought the farm.

die, pass away
buy the farm

    Turkish pronunciation

    bay dhi färm

    Pronunciation

    /ˈbī ᴛʜē ˈfärm/ /ˈbaɪ ðiː ˈfɑːrm/

    Etymology

    () US slang, from the WWII era (first printed record in the US Air Force in the 1950's). Similar expressions like buy the plot and buy the lot also existed, although buy the farm is the only one to have survived. Probably related to older British slang buy it, buy one or buy the packet, both seemingly ironic references to something that one does not want to buy. May come from the common reflection that once someone had finished his service he would go home and buy a farm to settle on.
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