buy the farm

“This is the only place in the souk you can buy safety pins,” he said.

Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

If Mac had been alone he would have made the post by sundown, for the Mounted Police rode picked horses, the best money could buy.

"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.

The evening previous to his death he was walking about the farm, in the full possession of all his faculties of mind and body.

Van Twiller was himself a grower of the plant and had his tobacco farm at Greenwich.