bank night »
An event where patrons are enticed to buy entry tickets into some venue, for example a movie theater, with the anticipation that they will be entered into a drawing to win an amount of money if their ticket is drawn and they are on-site at the time of the winning.
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bought the farm »
Simple past tense and past participle of buy the farm: died; often refers to death in battle.
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buy out »
To purchase the entire stock or extent of something.
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buy out »
To purchase the ownership of a company.
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buy straw hats in winter »
Of stocks, to buy when both demand and price is low, sell when demand and price is high.
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buy the farm »
To die; often, to die in battle.
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buy time »
Purposefully cause a delay to something, in order to achieve something else.
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buy to let »
To purchase a property as in investment, and to let it out for rental instead of living in it.
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feed the dragon »
To buy or sell products labeled as "Made in China.".
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keep up with the Joneses »
To do or buy things for status, show, or image rather than out of need, especially for the purpose of competing with friends or neighbors.
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money can't buy happiness »
Money can buy external things, but true happiness comes from inside.
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on spec »
I'm writing an article on spec. I hope some magazine will buy it.
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sell a bargain »
A species of wit, much in vogue about the latter end of the reign of Queen Anne, and frequently alluded to by Dean Swift, who says the maids of honour often amused themselves with it. It consisted in the seller naming his or her hinder parts, in answer to the question, What? which the buyer was artfully led to ask. As a specimen, take the following instance: A lady would come into a room full of company, apparently frightened, crying out "It is white, and follows me!" As soon as someone responded "What?" she sold him the bargain, by saying "Mine arse".
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take over »
To buy out the ownership of a business.
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window-shopping »
The browsing of shop windows without any intention of buying.
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