单词 | buy the farm |
释义 | buy the farm (once / 73871 pages) v WORD FAMILY buy the farm: bought the farm, buying the farm USAGE EXAMPLESHe was 33 when he bought the farm in 1978. New York Times(Nov 03, 2016) The number of companies buying the farm’s milk has shrunk to a handful, he said, and none are local. New York Times(Oct 31, 2016) With Teddy buying the farm again, my first thoughts was, great they have zombie robots now. New York Times(Oct 16, 2016) v pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad stop operating or functioning diesuffer or face the pain of death be born come into existence through birth abort cease development, die, and be aborted asphyxiate, stifle, suffocatebe asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen buy it, pip outbe killed or die; drowndie from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating predeceasedie before; die earlier than famish, starvedie of food deprivation falldie, as in battle or in a hunt succumb, yieldbe fatally overwhelmed strangledie from strangulation change state, turn undergo a transformation or a change of position or action |
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