buy the farm

短语

（北美, 非正式）死亡

发音

AU

词形变化

bought the farm buys the farm 三单 buying the farm 现在分词 bought the farm 过去式 bought the farm 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To die; generally, to die in battle or in a plane crash.

    美国 委婉 习语 非正式

词汇关系

动词

同义词 10

go die pass exit choke perish croak expire conk drop dead

上位词 1

turn

下位词 10

fall drown starve yield abort suffocate succumb stifle asphyxiate buy it

近义相关 9

go die break fail break down give out conk out give way go bad

词源

Not known with certainty. Two long-held hypotheses are as follows: One describes combat soldiers wistfully wishing to go back home, buy a farm, and live peacefully there; later, after they had been killed in combat, their fellow soldiers would say that they had bought the farm (compare the established metaphor pattern of having gone to that big [whatever sort of nice place] in the sky). Another links the phrase to the idea that governments compensate farmers whose land is damaged by a military aircraft crash; a deceased pilot was thus said to have bought the farm, and the term eventually entered wider use. Still another links it to a sardonic attitude of farmers that farms are often so heavily mortgaged and farmers' finances so difficult that one could not finish buying one's farm until one was dead.

来源：wiktionary