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bought the farm
adjective as in dead
adjective as in departed
Strongest match
Example Sentences
Ministers bought the farm in 2022 with the intention of helping the company - since then Green Man has been in negotiations to lease the site.
They had originally bought the farm to raise beef but switched to events after 2016, when “the bottom fell out of the American grass-fed beef market” because of foreign competition, according to the business website.
“So then, we bought the farm … that’s what flipped our world upside down.”
The Baboyians bought the farm in 1995, moved into the farmhouse and began turning the property into what they now call Evermore Farm.
“I have got algal blooms in my downstream water. After they bought the farm, the nitrate level almost doubled.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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