单词 | buy the farm |
释义 | buy the farm NAmer, informal to die, esp suddenly or violently [orig US Air Force slang with reference to pilots killed in action. ‘Buying the farm’ may be symbolic of retirement (as a metaphor for death); or the reference may be to the government recompensing farmers on whose land military aircraft crashed.]Main Entry: farm |
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