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see under BUY IT.
American Heritage Idioms
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Phrase(s): buy the farm [and] buy it Sl. to die; to get killed. (The farm is a burial plot.) • I’ll pass through this illness; I’m too young to buy the farm. • He lived for a few hours after his collapse, but then he bought it.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs