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buy it

verb

Etymology

* 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.

Definitions

  1. To die.

    • He bought it in a shootout.

  2. To believe any particular assertion or idea

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

    • He claims that he'll pay me back, but I don't buy it.
    • He was claiming that he'd pay her back, but she wasn't buying it.
    • He had been talking up a storm about diversification of assets, and clearly they had bought it.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA