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单词 to buy and sell
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to buy and sell

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P1. to buy and sell. In figurative and extended use: to trade or deal with (a person, a person's life, something immaterial) as with merchandise; to traffic in.
a. transitive. With a person or as person's life as object; esp. (in early use) to seal the fate of (a person); to treat (a person's life) as forfeit; (later chiefly) to betray for a bribe. Chiefly in passive, as to be bought and sold.
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c1330 Roland & Vernagu (Auch.) (1882) l. 838 Smite ich eft on siþe Þi liif is bouȝt & seld.
c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 59 Quod desteine, ‘he is bouȝt & solde;’ Quod deeþ, ‘his eende make schal we.’
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. vi. 35 Dickon thy master is bought and sould . View more context for this quotation
1633 J. Ford Loues Sacrifice iv. sig. I3v My Lord you are vndone... Lost; and I feare your life is bought and sold.
1792 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 644 We're bought and sold for English gold.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Ringlet 33 She that gave you's bought and sold.
1991 M. Dibdin Dirty Tricks (1992) 142 The teachers who had taken Clive's on-your-bike homilies at face value got angry when they discovered how they'd been bought and sold.
b. transitive. To deal in (something abstract, as one's honour, justice, love, etc.) as a commodity, esp. in a way viewed as corrupt or corrupting.
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a1450 York Plays (1885) 420 (MED) Thus schall þe sothe be bought and solde.
1548 N. Lesse in tr. P. Melanchthon Iustif. Man by Faith Only Ep. Ded. f. iiiv The Papystes professynge the name of Christ do vtterly denye Christe in byenge and sellynge the saluation of man.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. i. 192 The Cardinall Does buy and sell his Honour as he pleases. View more context for this quotation
1774 J. Hanway Virtue in Humble Life I. 81 Those christians, who have made their religion a kind of market for churchmen to buy and sell souls: who presume to take upon themselves to acquit or condemn them, as it turns to their own worldly advantage.
1828 ‘A. Eldon’ Continental Traveller's Oracle I. 279 Kings, ministers, and prelates, thus buy and sell honours, virtues, and sometimes—nations.
1872 M. Oliphant Mem. De Montalembert II. xii. 68 What should I do among all those low people, who buy and sell their consciences?
1936 R. Conner Time to Kill 187 They were..a match for no city woman in the matter of buying and selling virtue.
1980 Detroit Free Press 8 July 7 a/5 The good old days when special interests and consenting politicians could buy and sell influence in the privacy of their own smoke-filled rooms.
2013 J. Kenny Spark xxxii. 317 It was the whole rotten system where corporations could buy and sell justice.
P2. to buy (something) over a person's head: to buy for a higher price than someone else, to outbid a person for; (later also) to purchase something without regard to the pre-existing claim, offer, interest, authority, etc., of the person affected, in a way regarded as underhand or improper.Cf. over a person's head at head n.1 Phrases 1k.
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society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (intransitive)] > make various types of bid
revie1591
underbid1611
bida1616
overbid1616
to buy over a person's head1682
ticket1778
spring1851
tender1865
jolly1869
1578 T. Lupton All for Money sig. Aiijv Who will not preuent his neighbour with buying things ouer his head.
1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece ii. 195 The Bishops are always buying it over one anothers Heads.
1755 T. Cibber Epist. to D. Garrick 22 A mistaken Purchaser bought my Farm over my Head, when I had no Suspicion of such Proceeding.
1841 Bradshaw's Jrnl. 11 Dec. 83/2 What business had he with them, I wonder? He bought them over my head, too.
1901 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 406 He would buy an entire collection rather than risk the chance of a volume he desired being bought over his head at an auction.
1981 New Scientist 14 May 450/1 The house had been the headquarters of the Sussex Archaeological Society for many years when Dawson bought it over their heads and turned them out.
2021 Express Online (Nexis) 10 Feb. Will Gail be left homeless as David enacts his revenge for his mum buying the house over his head?
P3. slang (originally cant). to buy a brush: to make good one's escape; to make a speedy departure; to leave, to clear off. Cf. brush v.1 3. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Let's buy a Brush, let us scour off, and make what shift we can to secure our selves from being apprehended.
1718 Eng. Rogue Reviv'd 18 Mr. Fuller having made Hay there whilst the Sun shin'd, he bought a Brush, and went over into the Mint, that common Receptacle of all Rogues, that have a Mind to Cheat their Creditors.
?1795 Laugh when you Can 57 Mr. Beefhead..still kept fast hold of the halter for security that Ralph should not ‘buy a brush’, or in plainer words, jump out of the window and march off.
1837 Spirit of Times 12 Aug. 206/1 I wished her a good night, and bought a brush.
P4. to buy it: to suffer some mishap or reverse; esp. to be wounded; to get killed, to die; to be damaged or destroyed. Cf. sense 2b, to buy the farm (also ranch, plot, etc.) at Phrases 9.There is apparently no evidence of continuity between later evidence and quot. 1826, which perhaps shows a contextual use of sense 2a or sense 2b, although this is recorded later (perhaps cf. quot. 1925 at sense 2b).
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > happen unfortunately [verb (intransitive)] > suffer misfortune or a mishap
mishappenc1230
mishapc1385
mistidec1390
spill1390
misbetide?a1400
misfalla1400
mistime1402
misfortune?a1425
misbefallc1450
miscapea1535
mischancea1542
to come home by unhappinessc1555
mislucka1617
buy1825
pratfall1940
schlimazel1963
1826 W. N. Glascock Naval Sketch-bk. I. 27 Never mind, in closing with Crappo, [sc. the French] if we didn't buy it with his raking broadsides.
1920 W. Noble With Bristol Fighter Squadron v. 70 The wings and fuselage, with fifty-three bullet holes, caused us to realize on our return how near we had been to ‘buying it’.
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 41 To buy, to be scored off or victimized. Of a man getting an answer to a question which made him ridiculous: ‘He bought it that time.’
1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 39 He bought it, he was shot down.
1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 16 He's bought it, he is dead—that is, he has paid with his life.
1944 J. E. Morpurgo in Penguin New Writing 22 11 I'm afraid we want you elsewhere... Jim Barton bought it, and you'll have to take on his troop.
1953 R. Lehmann Echoing Grove 261 He'd lived in London before the war, but the whole street where he'd hung out had bought it in the blitz.
2018 J. Miles Anat. Miracle xix. 282 Hooper..bought it in an IED attack.
P5. to buy low (and) sell high (and variants): to buy assets when prices are low and retain them until their price increases. Later also buy low (and) sell high (and variants): used to express the principle or belief that the greatest profit to be earned (typically from investments on the stock market) is by using this method or technique.
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1568 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Bannatyne) l. 3114 in Wks. (1931) II. 362 That fassone was na folly, To sell richt deir, & by gud chaip.
1698 Britania Nova Illustrata 16 (note) It is the Customary Trade of Merchants, to Buy Cheap, and Sell Dear; but it is the Truest Policy, and most for the Publick Good, that they should Buy Dear, and Sell so too.
1832 Columbus (Georgia) Enquirer 21 July The Farmers of Georgia: May they buy low sell high and never be taxed with a infernal tariff.
1864 W. H. Thomes Gold Hunters' Adventures lxxxi. 548 We had ready money enough on hand to take advantage of the markets, and buy low and sell dear.
1978 J. E. Mahoney Buy Low sell High 11 Those who claim that the way to make money in the stock market is to ‘buy low, sell high’ are being derided. Yet that is the only way to make money.
1997 J. Grote & J. McGeeney Clever as Serpents 71 In financial markets, the ultimate rule of thumb is ‘buy cheap and sell dear’.
2022 Financial Express (India) (Nexis) 12 May Retail US market investors have been buying the dip since..stock prices began to fall... This perhaps could be the right approach as buy low, sell high remains a robust principle to create wealth over a longer time frame.
P6. to buy time: to delay an action, event, etc., in order to allow more time for preparation; to take a course of action which will allow more time to do something else.
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1832 Observer 31 Dec. The contest now, therefore, is purely one of time and resources, that is, of money to buy time.
1876 Gen. Rep. Admin. Bombay Presidency 1874–75 p. xxxi A discontent which is chiefly caused by their first being terrified into signing bonds far in excess of what they owe in order to buy time.
1957 Times 11 May 6/3 The preservation of Jordan last month has bought time, and may have shifted the formal power of alignments of the Middle East.
2020 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 25 Apr. 21 All he could offer was an oestrogen-suppressant drug that would slow the growth of the tumours and buy some time.
P7. Horse Racing slang. to buy money: to bet (heavily) at short odds on a favourite.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet [verb (intransitive)] > type of betting
run or throw a levant1714
levant1797
to pound it1819
field1860
to go for the gloves1861
to buy money1906
plunge1939
to bet like the Watsons1949
(to bet (etc.)) on the nose1951
1860 Bell's Life in London 29 July 4/4 The favourites, it will be seen, were successful in every race, although from the odds laid it amounted almost to ‘buying money’.
1906 A. C. Fox-Davies Dangerville Inheritance vii. 99 The public had left off buying money, and the wagering had become slack.
1928 Daily Express 12 July 12/2 Backers..had to buy money over On Avon and Rainbow Bridge.
2019 Racing Post (Nexis) 5 June 12 Anyone who thought they were buying money on..Locker Room Talk would have been worried down the back straight after the short-priced favourite jumped markedly to his right and was unable to get True Romance off the bridle.
P8. Finance. to buy the (also on) dip and variants: to purchase a stock, commodity, asset, etc., after its price has dropped.
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1888 Philadelphia Inquirer 31 Dec. 6/1 Operators who use a little caution in buying on dips will find it to their interest during the next sixty days.
1922 N.Y. Times 28 May 21/3 The local element was somewhat less bearish of late, and bought on the dips.
1983 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 21 Mar. Investors should use any price weakness to buy fixed-income investments, or as Richardson said: ‘Buy the dips’.
1987 Bond Buyer (Nexis) 30 Jan. 3 They wanted to buy the dip. And there's no dip.
2021 @AndrewL33582005 5 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 5 Nov. 2021) Understand the depth of the company you invest. Buy the dips and know when you invest it means patience and time against the manipulation of the market.
P9. Originally U.S. Air Force slang. to buy the farm (also ranch, plot, etc.): (of the pilot of an aeroplane) to crash fatally; (hence more generally) to be killed; to die (cf. Phrases 4). [Perhaps with allusion to the notion that a farmer whose farm is damaged by a military plane crash would be compensated by the government. Compare earlier use referring to (non-fatal) motoring accidents in which a damaged vehicle, etc., is referred to as being bought as in quot. 1938.]
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1938 Amer. Speech 13 308/2 Bought a car (or telephone pole, etc.), a driver is to blame for an accident.]
1954 N.Y. Times Mag. 7 Mar. 20/1 [In a glossary of jet pilots' slang] Bought a plot, had a fatal crash.
1963 E. M. Miller Exile to Stars (1964) 29 The police dispatcher says a plane just bought the farm.
1968 K. H. Cooper Aerobics 125 If the clot is in a coronary artery, you've bought the farm.
1976 C. R. Anderson Grunts 154 They don't do nothing for a guy till after he buys the ranch.
1989 D. Koontz Midnight i. xi. 296 I was in surgery, having a bullet taken out of my chest, and I almost bought the farm.
1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) xi. 322 For one hundred and fifty seconds he genuinely checked out, kicked the bucket, bought the farm.
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to buy and sell
a. absol. and intransitive. (Often in phrase to buy and sell; more rarely to sell and buy.)
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c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 213 Þat is ure alre wune þe biggeð and silleð.
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 287 Þat our merchantz mot go forto bie & selle.
1458 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 300 And he sel or by in maner above sayd.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. iii. 33 Iew. I wil buy with you, sell with you, talke with you..: but I will not eate with you. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xlii. 6 And hee it was that sold to all the people of the land. View more context for this quotation
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1657 (1955) III. 187 They..were permitted to sell to the friends of their Enemies.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 467 The testator had no power to sell.
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