To buy: To have something not desired, such as a job, thrust on one enexpectedly, for example, "Just as he was going out, he ran into the Corporal and bought a fatigue." Also, to obtain something by craft (Click, also Wangle). Another meaning: to be scored off or victimised. Of a man getting an answer to a question which made him ridiculous: "He bought it that time." [1]
References / notes
- ↑ Edward Fraser and John Gibbons (1925). Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases. Routledge, London p.41.
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