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Pat Durkin wrote:
"Richard Fangnail" <richardfangnail@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1167542145.414575.290000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"owned" seems to be very recent slang for "was defeated by." Like,
"the nazis got owned by the Russians." Where did this idiom come
from?
I hven't heard it, but there is that expression, made familiar most
recently by Colin Powell--You break it you own it (or buy it).
That's been appearing in stores at least since I was a kid: "You broke
it, you bought it."
I saw a bumper sticker the other day, depicting President Bush saying,
"Iraq: I broke it, you bought it."
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