buy the farm

Questions about buy the farm

What does buy the farm mean?

buy the farm means "pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life".

What is another word for buy the farm?

Close synonyms include die, decease, perish, go, exit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is buy the farm a common word?

buy the farm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.