buy the big one

present singular third person buys the big one · participle present buying the big one · participle past bought the big one · past bought the big one

1. slangTo die.

   "but it was my partner, Porter Forge, who threw me his SIG so I could shoot him. Otherwise I would have died in the line of duty." "But it was Savich who bought the big one," Petty said.

   1998, Catherine Coulter, The Maze, Penguin, →ISBN, page 14

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   "Frita is dead!" "Dead?" Despair whispered as his empty eyes fell open. "Dead, died, defunct, over and out, bought the big one, kicked bucket, the last hurrah, regards to Broadway, pushing up daisies, renting dirt space, cashing in her chips and tuning up her harp."

   2003, Dexter C. Herron, Knight of Chaos, Author House, →ISBN, page 194

   The impact threw the passengers "hard forward" and the cabin filled with choking, blinding smoke. "I thought I'd already bought the big one," he said. "I wished I'd been killed on impact so that I didn't have to go through that."

   2015, Thomas Fensch, Associated Press Coverage of a Major Disaster: The Crash of Delta Flight 1141, Routledge, →ISBN, page 159

   Synonyms: bite the big one, assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be like the the One, be no more, be with Jesus