Why would “they” want to crush him just for attempting to buy something twenty years ago?
Normally when you buy something for $30 and sell it for $50, you have to pay taxes on a $20 profit.
Instead, consumers can only be penalized when they buy something, not when they stand on the sidelines of the marketplace.
He first stops at a convenience store to get change for a phone call, but the owner forces him to buy something first.
Was trying to buy something worthy of a Bat Mitzvah invite for my daughter at a top-of-the-line country club.
You mean you did not have enough change to buy something to eat?
Then, however, they sent the girls away, so that they might buy something for them.
Here it was agreed they should go in, and buy something to eat.
He who really intends to buy something keeps on discussing it.
Those who had any money were allowed to go out and buy something to eat.