English Explanatory Dictionary

buy it

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To die.
  2. To believe any particular assertion or idea; to support it.

Pronunciation

En-au-buy it.ogg

Word forms

buy it buys it buying it bought it

Etymology

* In the die sense, apparently attested since the 1820s, thus earlier than the variant buy the farm, which may be an extension of it. * In the have it sense, an elliptical allusion to believing a sales pitch.

Synonyms

buy the farm kick the bucket assume room temperature auger in be called home be gathered to one's fathers be like the the One be no more be with Jesus be with the Lord bite the big one bite the biscuit bite the dust buy it cark it cash in cash in one's chips check out close one's eyes for the last time code conk out croak cross over cross rainbow bridge cross the Great Divide cross the Styx darken decease decompose dematerialize depart disincarnate draw one's last breath drop off the hooks exit expire flatline forfare give one's all give up the ghost go for a burton go gentle into that good night go out go over to the majority go the way of all flesh go the way of the dinosaurs go the way of the dodo go the way of the dodo bird go to glory go to one's reward go west hand in one's checks hand in one's dinner pail hop the twig join the choir invisible keel over kick off knock off liquidate lose my life for Jesus Christ
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