"buy the farm" meaning in Anglais

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Verb

Audio: En-au-buy the farm.ogg Forms: to buy the farm [infinitive], buys the farm [present, third-person, singular], bought the farm [preterite], bought the farm [participle, past], buying the farm [participle, present]
  1. Passer l’arme à gauche, casser sa pipe. Tags: euphemism, familiar
    Sense id: fr-buy_the_farm-en-verb-rlBHH8CF Categories (other): Euphémismes en anglais, Exemples en anglais, Exemples en anglais à traduire, Termes familiers en anglais
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: buy it, croak, die, kick the bucket, punch one’s ticket

Inflected forms

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    "(Seconde Guerre mondiale) Littéralement « acheter la ferme ». Possiblement parce que la prime de décès versée à la famille était suffisante pour payer l’hypothèque de la ferme familiale. Ou encore du sentiment fréquent des recrues de s’acheter une ferme une fois le service terminé. De nombreuses autres hypothèses existent.",
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    "(Seconde Guerre mondiale) Littéralement « acheter la ferme ». Possiblement parce que la prime de décès versée à la famille était suffisante pour payer l’hypothèque de la ferme familiale. Ou encore du sentiment fréquent des recrues de s’acheter une ferme une fois le service terminé. De nombreuses autres hypothèses existent.",
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