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"Harlan Messinger" <hmessinger.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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?
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>> 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).
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> That's been appearing in stores at least since I was a kid: "You broke
> it, you bought it."
Yes. With a frightfully high price on the very prominent sticker!
Don't see it much any longer, what with much of the china and glassware.
But I am not in the stores so much with little kids. I can't believe
how daring parents were, to take the little ones into such stores.
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> I saw a bumper sticker the other day, depicting President Bush saying,
> "Iraq: I broke it, you bought it."
Nice threat.
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