[Ads-l] Antedating of "Free Lunch"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sun Sep 13 23:00:58 UTC 2020


 free lunch (OED 1848)

1840 _Illinois State Register_ 8 Feb. 3/5 (Newspapers.com)  Free Lunch set every day.

Fred Shapiro


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