[Ads-l] Go big or go home (antedating, 1960)

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

Barry Popik has an entry for "go big or go home" at
https://barrypopik.com/blog/go_big_or_go_home, where he places the
expression to February 1964.

You'll find a sighting from October 1960 below.

-- Bonnie

The second saying is not quite as profound as the first but it does
make a point, "go big or go home". Evidently these schools can't go
big and don't want to go home.

[Dan Grove, "In the Groove," The Villanovan, 5 October 1960, p. 12.
Grove describes this as "one of two old sayings."
https://archive.org/details/villanovan33_06_reel06/page/n493/mode/2up?q=%22go+big+or+go+home%22]

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