See buy it on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "* In the die sense, apparently attested since the 1820s, thus earlier than the variant buy the farm, which may be an extension of it.\n* In the have it sense, an elliptical allusion to believing a sales pitch.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "buys it",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "buying it",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "bought it",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "bought it",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "buy<,,bought> it"
},
"expansion": "buy it (third-person singular simple present buys it, present participle buying it, simple past and past participle bought it)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English euphemisms",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "64 36",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "47 53",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "73 27",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "72 28",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
3,
12
]
],
"text": "He bought it in a shootout.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To die."
],
"id": "en-buy_it-en-verb-en:to_die",
"links": [
[
"die",
"die#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, euphemistic) To die."
],
"senseid": [
"en:to die"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "buy the farm"
},
{
"word": "kick the bucket"
},
{
"word": "die"
}
],
"tags": [
"euphemistic",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "47 53",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
46,
52
]
],
"text": "He claims that he'll pay me back, but I don't buy it.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
55,
64
]
],
"text": "He was claiming that he'd pay her back, but she wasn't buying it.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
85,
94
]
],
"text": "He had been talking up a storm about diversification of assets, and clearly they had bought it.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To believe any particular assertion or idea; to support it."
],
"id": "en-buy_it-en-verb-en:to_believe_an_assertion",
"links": [
[
"believe",
"believe#Verb"
],
[
"assertion",
"assertion"
],
[
"idea",
"idea"
],
[
"support",
"support#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, idiomatic) To believe any particular assertion or idea; to support it."
],
"senseid": [
"en:to believe an assertion"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "have it"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-buy it.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/75/En-au-buy_it.ogg/En-au-buy_it.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/En-au-buy_it.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪət"
}
],
"word": "buy it"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/aɪət",
"Rhymes:English/aɪət/2 syllables"
],
"etymology_text": "* In the die sense, apparently attested since the 1820s, thus earlier than the variant buy the farm, which may be an extension of it.\n* In the have it sense, an elliptical allusion to believing a sales pitch.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "buys it",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "buying it",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "bought it",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "bought it",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "buy<,,bought> it"
},
"expansion": "buy it (third-person singular simple present buys it, present participle buying it, simple past and past participle bought it)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English euphemisms",
"English slang",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
3,
12
]
],
"text": "He bought it in a shootout.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To die."
],
"links": [
[
"die",
"die#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, euphemistic) To die."
],
"senseid": [
"en:to die"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "buy the farm"
},
{
"word": "kick the bucket"
},
{
"word": "die"
}
],
"tags": [
"euphemistic",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English idioms",
"English slang",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
46,
52
]
],
"text": "He claims that he'll pay me back, but I don't buy it.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
55,
64
]
],
"text": "He was claiming that he'd pay her back, but she wasn't buying it.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
85,
94
]
],
"text": "He had been talking up a storm about diversification of assets, and clearly they had bought it.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To believe any particular assertion or idea; to support it."
],
"links": [
[
"believe",
"believe#Verb"
],
[
"assertion",
"assertion"
],
[
"idea",
"idea"
],
[
"support",
"support#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, idiomatic) To believe any particular assertion or idea; to support it."
],
"senseid": [
"en:to believe an assertion"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "have it"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-buy it.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/75/En-au-buy_it.ogg/En-au-buy_it.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/En-au-buy_it.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪət"
}
],
"word": "buy it"
}
Download raw JSONL data for buy it meaning in All languages combined (2.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-20 using wiktextract (4eaa824 and ea19a0a). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.