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buy the ticket, take the ride 

(from Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
Creating, and being involved in, a situation that may get you in way over your head-- but deciding that turning back would be a rather uninteresting option
When Kenny and Chris realized that they'd invited six uninhibited drunkards to go boating with them for an entire weekend, they briefly reconsidered going at all.

Chris: Oh well-- buy the ticket, take the ride.

buy a fucking vowel 

Phrase borrowed (more or less) from TV's "Wheel of Fortune", indicating disrespect for someone's mental abilities. Since generally the contestants on Wheel aren't exactly Einstein, telling someone to buy a fucking vowel is about equivalent to "Get a clue, moron!"
You think the War on Drugs is working? Buy a fucking vowel!

President Bush wants to help the middle class, eh? Maybe he should buy a fucking vowel with his family fortune.

buy the farm 

To die, espescially in combat; most likely from the idea that a dead soldier's death benifit would serve to pay off his family's morgtage. Often shortened to "bought it."
Chuck Lindberg later recalled the hazards of lugging a tank that carried seventy-two pounds of... napalm... under twelve hundred pounds of pressure... "It was dangerous work. A lot of guys bought the farm trying that."

--James Bradley, in Flags of our Fathers
buy the farm by Pink January 30, 2004

buy the fucking dip 

To purchase a stock or commodity during a price decline. Became popular during the post-housing bubble quantitative easing trend, where stocks were guaranteed to rise until a new dawn of American capitalism magically occurred or, alternatively, the money supply exploded resulting in uncontrollable inflation.
Investor 1: Dude, did you see that silver prices went down? What's with that?
Investor 2: Buy the dip. The Bernank will make sure that all prices are rising.
Investor 1: What?
Investor 2: Buy the fucking dip, you fucking idiot.
buy the fucking dip by Cocomaan March 14, 2011
Buy-Q is your shopping intelligence
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Buy-Q by JaneGordon.com December 12, 2022

buy-curious 

A person who is just looking around and may or may not be interested in buying something from a store.

As used on Arrested Development.
Store clerk: "Oh, look who's back... are you going to buy something this time, or are you just curious?"

Tobias: "Well, I guess you could say that I'm buy-curious!"
buy-curious by Cagefight December 7, 2006