buy the farm
To die; generally, to die in battle or in a plane crashTo die; generally, to die in battle or in a plane crash.
» I bought an old farm.
Я купил старую ферму. — marafon
Я купив стару ферму. — deniko
Я купила стару ферму. — deniko
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 senses(US, euphemistic, idiomatic, informal)To die; generally, to die in battle or in a plane crash.
den Löffel abgeben
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Examples
14 sentencesI bought an old farm.
Я купив стару ферму. — deniko
ruЯ купил старую ферму. — marafon
Tom wants to buy my farm.
He had no money to buy the farm.
ruУ него не было денег на покупку фермы. — kurzawhile
I bought a farm not too far from Boston.
ruЯ купил ферму недалеко от Бостона. — marafon
I've decided to buy that farm we were looking at last week.
Translations
4 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
Not known with certainty. Two long-held hypotheses are as follows: One describes combat soNot known with certainty. Two long-held hypotheses are as follows: One describes combat soldiers wistfully wishing to go back home, buy a farm, and live peacefully there; later, after they had been killed in combat, their fellow soldiers would say that they had bought the farm (compare the established metaphor pattern of having gone to that big [whatever sort of nice place] in the sky). Another links the phrase to the idea that governments compensate farmers whose land is damaged by a military aircraft crash; a deceased pilot was thus said to have bought the farm, and the term eventually entered wider use. Still another links it to a sardonic attitude of farmers that farms are often so heavily mortgaged and farmers' finances so difficult that one could not finish buying one's farm until one was dead.
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Forms
buys the farm, buying the farm, bought the farm, bought the farm| Base form | buy the farm · to buy the farm |
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| 3rd person singular | buys the farm |
| Present participle | buying the farm |
| Past simple | bought the farm |
| Past participle | bought the farm |
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Synonyms
23 synonymsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, irregular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle