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buy the farm

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buy the farm and buy it
Sl. to die; to get killed. (The farm is a burial plot.) I'll pass through this illness; I'm too young to buy the farm. He lived for a few hours after his collapse, but then he bought it.
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If I am faced with a series of poor crop years, or the time comes when I really need to spend my money on a once-in-a-lifetime chance to buy the farm next door, my fleet will be in a position where I can take a pass on trading.
Harper, who said he wished he had ``super, deep, stupid dough'' to just buy the farm outright and keep it open, appealed to the landowner's sense of fairness.
amp;ldquo;If there’s not enough money to provide the older generation with reward and security, then the younger generation needs to buy the farm out right.
 
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