Re: five-finger discount
No, this refers to shoplifiting-as in, using the five fingers on a hand to lift an item into ones' pocket.
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I suppose the phrase was just invented by sum clever person, but who? Do we know?
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Doesn't seem like the sort of usage whose origin would be well documented.For what it's worth, the first citation in the OED is given as "1966 J. M. BREWER in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 241/2...
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Funny, I thought it might refer to the cheap thrills you get from a session with Five-Fingers Mary...
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The asterisk simply denotes the first citation of a particular form or phrase. The OED editors use it in lists of combination forms to make it easier to find the beginning of citations for a...
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Thanks. I thought it was something about "first citation" but had a vague misrecollection that it might be indicative of the editors' belief that the cited example was actually the first time the word...
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