He’s going to bite the farm
Posted: August 26, 2012 Filed under: ACTION, PLACES | Tags: bite, blended idioms, death, dust, expressions, farm, malaphors, mixed idioms, words Leave a commentA mix-up of two idioms meaning “to die” – “bite the dust” and “buy the farm”. Perhaps the speaker was thinking of the drought that has caused farmland to turn to dust. Or maybe sometimes those farm animals will bite you in the butt….
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