[Ads-l] Antedating of "Chump Change"

[Shapiro, Fred]

chump change (OED 1967)

1965 Philadelphia Tribune​ 1 May 7 (ProQuest)

Hardly anyone ... expected the "War on Poverty" to be won with a mere bagful of leftover "chump change" after some payments on the national debt.

Fred Shapiro

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