buy it

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To die. euphemistic,slang
    — He bought it in a shootout.
  2. To believe any particular assertion or idea; to support it. idiomatic,slang
    — He claims that he'll pay me back, but I don't buy it.

词形变化

buys it present,singular,third-person buying it participle,present bought it participle,past bought it past

词源

* In the die sense, apparently attested since the 1820s, thus earlier than the variant buy the farm, which may be an extension of it.
* In the have it sense, an elliptical allusion to believing a sales pitch.
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