BUY IT Definition & Meaning

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buy it

Believe it; see buy something .
Suffer a severe reversal, as in If they can't raise the money in time, they'll buy it . [ Slang ; mid-1900s]
Be killed; die. For example, By the time we could get to the hospital, he had bought it . Originating during World War I as military slang, this term later was extended to peacetime forms of death. A later slang equivalent is buy the farm , dating from about 1950. For example, He'll soon buy the farm riding that motorcycle . According to J.E. Lighter, it alludes to training flights crashing in a farmer's field, causing the farmer to sue the government for damages sufficient to pay off the farm's mortgage. Since the pilot usually died in such a crash, he in effect bought the farm with his life.

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Plus, you may be generating a tax bill, since a stock that’s down for the year may still be worth more than when you bought it.

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"If it gets good reviews, and I wait until people have bought it first, then we'll think about it," she said.

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As with everything else to do with the app's future, who exactly is attempting to buy it is cloaked in uncertainty.

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"I bought it as a little run-around, to get back and forth from work and to take my family out at the weekends," he said.

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“No one wants your cheap junk, and it has so little value once you buy it.”

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