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Eudora Thao
2020-12-21 05:12
Bought the Farm American idiom informal
Used to express understatement about someone's death.
to die, or stop being alive, or pass away.
I really want to visit Venice once, before I buy the farm.
I'm sorry to hear that your grandmother has bought the farm.
To encounter bad luck, or being picked doing something undesirable
The inexplicable or concealed place or state indicates the afterlife.
It is most often used in past tense and past participle tense form bought the farm.
This idiom likely came from pilots’ slang, probably from jet fighters in the U.S. Air Force. Around the 1950's, the specific expression bought by the farm appeared. References theorize that it comes from an aircraft that crashed on a farm, and a farmer who sued the plane for damage compensation.
Some articles hypothesize that it comes from pilots who died in battle and whose families received financial support due to the deaths of the pilots.
Do you see anything wrong?
To make love or have sex with someone
They just jumped each other’s bones after one date.
