You break it you buy it (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

_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!" "

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

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