"No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Thu May 8 01:37:28 UTC 2003
On Wed, 7 May 2003, Towse wrote:
> "And, according to Robert Caro, quoted in the Random House
> Historical Dictionary of American Slang, New York Mayor Fiorello
> LaGuardia used the phrase (in Latin, no less) in 1934.
What LaGuardia is supposed to have said translates as "no more free
lunch." This is very different from the economists' proverb, which says
that there is never a free lunch, never has been, never will be.
Fred Shapiro
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