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buying the farm
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2010/09/21 21:04 UTC 版)
語源
US slang, from the WWII era (first printed record in the US Air Force in the 1950's). Similar expressions like buy the plot and buy the lot also existed, although buy the farm is the only one to have survived. Probably related to older British slang buy it, buy one or buy the packet, both seemingly ironic references to something that one does not want to buy. May come from the common reflection that once someone had finished his service he would go home and buy a farm to settle on.
動詞
to buy the farm (三人称単数 現在形 buys the farm, 現在分詞 buying the farm, 過去形および過去分詞形 bought the farm)
- (idiomatic, 米国用法, informal, euphemism) To die; generally, to die in battle or in a plane crash.
- That cat must have been twenty years old when he finally bought the farm.
- 1959 Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers[1], page 131:
- 1984 G. Harry Stine, Manna[2], page 221:
- Then tracers laced the sky in front of me. Forget the shooting! If I get distracted now, I'll buy the farm anyway!
- 1995 Steve Allen, “Having a Good Time”, in Ann McDonough & Kent R. Brown editor, A Grand Entrance[3], ISBN 087129933X, published 2000, page 212:
- 2002 W. Barry Baird, Vietnam Journey[4], ISBN 0595226795, page 171:
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同意語
- buy it
- kick the bucket
- punch one's ticket
- real estate deal
- See also Wikisaurus:die
参照
- "Buy the farm" in Michael Quinion, Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds, 2004.
- http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-buy1.htm
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