Sunday, March 3, 2019

Is this what's known as 'chump change'?



6,500 Montanan farmers sign up for $14 million in tariff relief payments.  (Great Falls Tribune, 2/28/2019)

According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of 'chump change' occurred in 1967.

Other coinages from the same year:

  1. doobie
  2. psychedelia
  3. recreational drug
  4. speed freak
  5. whacked-out
  6. zonked-out



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