Now old Mr. Carlson was a landowner for real.“How would you like to become a landowner?” snarled the mugger.
landowner
old-fashioned A dead body buried in the ground. (A play on the phrase "buy the farm," meaning "to die.") The war left the fields of the country populated with hundreds of anonymous new landowners.
landowner
(ˈlændonɚ)
n. a corpse; a dead person. (see also buy the farm.) Now old Mr. Carlson was a landowner for real.