More Re: "what goes around, comes around" proverb

[Baker, John]

        Not quite as early, but Spain v. Rushen, 543 F. Supp. 757, 763 (N.D.Cal. 1982), aff'd, 701 F.2d 186 (9th Cir.), vacated, 464 U.S. 114 (1983), records a usage by a San Quentin prisoner making a generalized threat to a correctional officer on June 12, 1975.

John Baker


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Subject: More Re: "what goes around, comes around" proverb


On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:

> Does anyone (Fred, Barry?) have any info on this recent-ish proverb
> "What goes around, comes around"? The only discussion here seems to
> have been a posting Barry made on the headwords in a 2002 glossary
> of prison slang. How early is it?

Actually, I see that what you probably already have as the earliest is
1974 E. Stone, _Donald Writes No More_, from the Concise Oxford Dictionary
of Proverbs.