Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!sun!pweiss From: pweiss@sun.uucp (Paul Weiss) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Origin of "bought the farm" Message-ID: <2951@sun.uucp> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 16:24:47 EST Article-I.D.: sun.2951 Posted: Wed Oct 30 16:24:47 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 06:16:19 EST References: <719@rtech.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 7 > Does anyone know the origin of the phrase, "bought the farm"? > -- I have heard that it's a reference to insurance policies. The farmer's life insurance policy was written to the value of the farm. When the tractor rolled over on him, he had "bought the farm". Now I've got one: whence "That's all she wrote"?