| 单词 | to buy the farm |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto 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. < as lemmas |
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