buy it—(sl.)
1. believe smth.:
- I told my new boyfriend that I am pregnant with his kid. Do you think he will buy it?
Cf.: sell it—(sl.) persuade a person to accept smth. as true:
- Don’t try to sell it to me as a great work of comedy. The film struck me as being very dumb.
2. die, especially suddenly or violently (also: buy the farm):
- By the time we could get to the hospital, he had bought it.
get it—
1. (often negat.) understand smth.:
- As for the movie, well, I don’t get it. There seems to be something profound going on here that I don’t understand.
2. (coll.) be punished:
- “Boy,” I said, “are you going to get it when mom sees you.”