You break it you buy it (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Garson O'Toole]

Bill Mullins
> _Dictionary of Modern Proverbs_ has 1952; I don't see anything earlier
> in the ADS-L archives.
>
> _Springfield [MA] Union_ 17 Sep 1948 p 16 col 2
> [from a Walter Winchell column]
> "The bric-a-brac shop in Greenwich Village where a placard warns: "If
> You Break it -- You've Bought It!" "

Bill: The 1948 Winchell cite is great. Barry Popik has it listed on
his webpage covering this saying:

“If you break it, you bought it” (Pottery Barn rule)
Entry from April 07, 2011
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