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buy

slang To believe or accept something as true or feasible without question or investigation. I can't believe the boss bought my excuse for missing work yesterday. A: "I keep telling you, the cats knocked over your vase!" B: "Yeah, I'm not buying it."

bought

see under buy.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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| Undy House, Undy, Magor: Bought for PS660,000 in August 2007.

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Suppose Fred and Sue sold their purple duplex on December 20, 2005, for $100,000 and bought New Property on March l, 2006.

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Now the debt is gone and she's on her second "Dave Ramsey car," a used 2002 Honda she bought with cash.

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"We bought North Star Steel because it has operations throughout the central United States, not where Ameristeel has them, in the eastern and southeastern part of the country.

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But I should have bought those extra hundred shares when I had the chance.

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"CEOs are experts at many things, especially making widgets," he says, "but they are not necessarily experts at weighing the variables associated with buying a plane." Almy speaks from years of experience; he has spent time in the executive suite with more than 45 CEOs to determine why they bought business aircraft.

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Ultimately, says Jim Jensen, executive director of the Montana Environmental Information Center, a nonprofit advocacy group in Helena, the taxpayers bear the costs when land is bought instead of regulated.

Environmental buyouts: protection at a price

The signal event for that phenomenon was, of course, Sotheby's 1973 auction of works from the collection of taxi-fleet entrepreneur Robert Scull, in which--at a time when one faction of the avant-garde was trying like hell to subvert the market by making deliberately uncollectible installations, performances, and Earthworks--two pieces by Robert Rauschenberg originally bought for a total of $3,400 sold for $175,000.

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Beware of resellers who sell produce they have bought themselves.

Support your community by buying local: Charlie Jackson's how-to guide for finding the freshest down-home fruits and veggies

Life settlements are an outgrowth of the shrinking viatical business, which bought policies insuring people with life expectancies of two years or less.

Cashing out: Big banks and insurers are putting money into the business of buying unwanted life insurance policies, a trend that foreshadows growth for the still-new industry. (Life/Health)

I bought her a diamond silver ring which she loves."

Does your man know what you really want?; Caroline Storah puts four couples to a Mr and Mrs Christmas test

Although this car has given me much pleasure, I still can't figure out exactly why I bought it.