buy a ticket to
Used to indicate that someone is in agreement with an assertion, statement, or suggestion.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“I buy a ticket to your plan for the weekend.”
“When he suggested we change the project deadline, the rest of the team decided to buy a ticket to his idea.”
“Although the proposal initially faced significant skepticism, the board members eventually chose to buy a ticket to the new strategy after reviewing the projected financial gains.”
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been there, done that, bought the T-shirt
Expresses the speaker's complete familiarity with a situation, with overtones of cynicism or exhaustion.
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buy a dog and bark oneself
To do something that one has hired someone else to do.
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buy and hold
A passive investment strategy where an investor purchases an asset and retains it for many years, rather than trading it frequently.
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buy into
To believe (something, especially something implausible); to accept (a craze, fad, or notion) as valid.
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buy it
To believe any particular assertion or idea; to support it.
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buy out
to purchase the entire stock or extent of something
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buy straw hats in winter
Of stocks, to buy when both demand and price are low, so as to sell when demand and price are high.
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buy the farm
To die; generally, to die in battle or in a plane crash.
Last updated August 10, 2026