buy the farm
To die; generally, to die in battle or in a plane crash.
You're just as dead if you buy the farm in an "incident" as if you buy it in a declared war.
farm
UK /fɑːm/ US /fɑːm/
verb 6noun 5name 1
Definitions
noun
1
A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
2
A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
3
A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures.
antenna farm; fuel farm; solar farm; wind farm
The skies are threatening to pour on the Apple solar farm but as the woman in-charge of the company’s environmental initiatives points out: the panels are still putting out some power. Apple is still greening its act.
4
A group of coordinated servers.
a render farm
a server farm
5
Food; provisions; a meal.
verb
1
To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
2
To devote (land) to farming.
3
To grow (a particular crop).
4
To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; to farm out.
to farm the taxes
[The East-India Company] have contrived to farm their subjects, and their duties toward these subjects, to that very Nabob, whom they themselves constantly represent as an habitual oppressor and a relentless tyrant.
5
To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
We are enforced to farm our royal realm.
verb
1
To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out
Farm out the stable and pigsty.
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