buy

buy

slang To believe or accept something as true or feasible without question or investigation. I can't believe the boss bought my excuse for missing work yesterday. A: "I keep telling you, the cats knocked over your vase!" B: "Yeah, I'm not buying it."
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

buy something (from someone) (for something)

to purchase something from someone at a particular price, or for a particular type of payment, such as for cash, for practically nothing, etc. I bought the car from Mark for a reasonable price. I bought it for a reasonable price from Mark.

buy something

Fig. to believe something someone says; to accept something to be a fact. It may be true, but I don't buy it. I just don't buy the idea that you can swim that far.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

bought

see under buy.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

buy

1. n. a purchase. Man, this is a great buy.
2. tv. to believe something. It sounds good to me, but will your wife buy it?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (Can I) buy you a drink?
  • best buy
  • bought
  • buy
  • buy (one's) way in(to) (something)
  • buy (one's) way out (of something)
  • buy (something) off the shelf
  • buy (something) on credit
  • buy (something) on tick
  • buy (something) on time
  • buy (something) sight unseen
  • buy (yourself) time
  • buy a lemon
  • buy a pig in a poke
  • buy a pup
  • buy a round
  • buy a/(one's) wolf ticket
  • buy a/(one's) woof ticket
  • buy a/the round (of drinks)
  • buy at
  • buy back
  • buy cheap, buy twice
  • buy in
  • buy into
  • buy into (something)
  • buy into, to
  • buy it
  • buy low, sell high
  • buy off
  • buy off on (something)
  • buy on credit
  • buy on time
  • buy out
  • buy sight unseen
  • buy someone’s woof ticket
  • buy something
  • buy straw hats in winter
  • buy the big one
  • buy the box
  • buy the farm
  • buy the rabbit
  • buy time
  • buy to let
  • buy trouble
  • buy up
  • buy way in
  • buy way out
  • buy wolf ticket
  • buy wolf tickets
  • buy you a drink?
  • buy, get, etc. something off the shelf
  • do over
  • don't buy a pig in a poke
  • for a song
  • for a song, to go/to buy/to sell
  • get (something) off the shelf
  • get (something) on tick
  • get, buy, etc. something on tick
  • I don't buy green bananas
  • Jinx, buy me a Coke!
  • money can't buy happiness
  • not buy
  • not buy (something)
  • pig in a poke, to buy a
  • sell (one) a pup
  • sell somebody/buy a pup
  • to go
  • Why buy a cow when (the) milk is free?
  • Why buy a cow when milk is (so) cheap?
  • Why buy a cow when you can get (the) milk for free?
  • Why buy a cow when you can get milk for free?
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362(b), but can utilize its own stock (instead of cash to buy the business), which often proves to be a significant economic advantage to the buyer.
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Now, the sell side, smaller in size but not necessarily stature, is flanked by a beefed-up and certainly more sophisticated institutional investor buy side which is spearheading more of its own research and hiring third-party supplemental research providers.
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