buy something

Idioms and Phrases

Believe something; accept as true or satisfactory. For example, You think he's a millionaire? I just won't buy that . [ Slang ; 1920s]

Example Sentences

Why would “they” want to crush him just for attempting to buy something twenty years ago?

From The Daily Beast

Normally when you buy something for $30 and sell it for $50, you have to pay taxes on a $20 profit.

From The Daily Beast

Instead, consumers can only be penalized when they buy something, not when they stand on the sidelines of the marketplace.

From The Daily Beast

He first stops at a convenience store to get change for a phone call, but the owner forces him to buy something first.

From The Daily Beast

Was trying to buy something worthy of a Bat Mitzvah invite for my daughter at a top-of-the-line country club.

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

Her maid stood waiting with the jewel-case while she went to the bookstall to buy something to read on the journey.

From Project Gutenberg

It might be said—to give them the fullest benefit of the doubt—that they undertook to buy something and the price was too high.

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Then he got out of the car and went into the shop—they sold toys there as well as everything else—to buy something himself.

From Project Gutenberg

Come on, anybody that wants toIm going to walk down to the village to buy something, I dont care what.

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