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English

buy it

verb

Meaning

  1. To die.
  2. To believe any particular assertion or idea; to support it.

Etymology / origin

* 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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