Meaning of farm upstate | Babel Free

Definitions

The place an animal (or by extension, person, concept, etc) notionally goes when they are dead; used as a euphemism for a state of literal or figurative death or oblivion.

US, euphemistic

Examples

“What do parents tell⟳ their kids when they have⟳ to put⟳ their pet dog down? “We had to send⟳ li'l Fido to a farm upstate, honey....” Maybe that's where I'm going. The farm upstate. “We had to send⟳ li'l Spencer to the farm upstate, honey.”

“The convenience of online shopping is "irresistible," John Oliver said on Sunday's Last⟳ Week Tonight. "It's frankly no wonder⟳ that e-commerce is gradually chipping away at brick-and-mortar retail sales, and it can seem like⟳ the retail jobs are shifting, too," with warehouse jobs apparently "absorbing America's lost retail employees." And that "initially sounds kind of nice," Oliver said. "It's like⟳ hearing that there's actually a farm upstate where Borders, Circuit City, and Tower Records employees can run⟳ around and be free."”

“The iconic palm trees that line Park⟳ Avenue in downtown San Jose are pulling up roots and moving off the street. / No, they're not going to a farm upstate or retiring to a sunny beach somewhere. They're not heading off to the wood chipper, either — they're going around the corner to a new home on Almaden Boulevard.”

“Turns out Betsy Ross is the biggest lie⟳ your kindergarten teacher ever told you (except that Bubbles the class gerbil was moving to a farm upstate).”

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