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Old 11-09-2023, 06:18 PM   #14
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Ya pays your money and you takes your chances (I did!)

Or go buy a Kawasaki.



The idiom “You pays your money, you takes your choice” first appeared in print in 1846 in the London magazine Punch.

The late, great American journalist William Safire (1929–2009) wrote a piece about it in The New York Times newspaper.

Mark Twain used the saying in 1884 (Huckleberry Finn, end of chapter 28)

By late 1980s, the idiom additionally was used as a comeback to complaints — similar in sense to “You can like it, or lump it.”
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