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This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

To build an easy to find question title simply select the paper and quiz, enter the quiz number if relevant and fill in the Publication Date. Once you’re happy click “Build Title” and the information should populate the Title field. Fill in the final required details of your question as you normally would, and click submit.

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Buy The Farm If Interior Of Study Gets Fitted Out (7)

petethedog99 | 22:26 Sun 09th Feb 2025 | Crosswords

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Genius 260 Help Please

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Lie-in King

Readied - 'die' (buy the farm) (in) 'read' (study)

petethedog99

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Many Thanks 👍

Lie-in King

You're welcome 🙂

Bricklayer

Hi Lie-in King

A bit more parsing for us thickees !

Why does die mean buy the farm ?

Many thanks

Bricklayer

Lie-in King

Hi Bricklayer - it's a slang term -

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/buy+the+farm

Lie-in King

From ^ -

"A possible explanation for this expression is that, in wartime, American Air Force pilots sometimes said that they wanted to stop flying, buy a farm or ranch, and lead a peaceful life. `Buy the farm' then came to be used when a pilot was killed in a crash."

sandyRoe

Young American soldiers had life insurance,$10,000.if they were killed in action that money would go to their parents who might use it to clear the mortgage in their farm.

Neveracrossword

According to Brewer's...

The expression originated in the early 1950s, as a piece of black humour in the US Air Force: when a jet aircraft crashed on to a farm, the compensation awarded to the farmer by the government would pay off his mortgage, so the farm could be said to have been bought by the pilot's death.

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