Brewer's: Buy Out

(To). To redeem or ransom.

Not being able to buy out his life ... Dies ere the weary sun set.

Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors, i.2.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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