英语词汇“to buy the farm”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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.

单词	to buy the farm
释义	> as lemmas to buy the farm (also ranch, plot, etc.) 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.] ΚΠ 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. extracted from buyv. < as lemmas
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