Where did the frase cheaper by the dozen come from ?
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First of all "frase" is not a word.  There's a damn spell check.  Use it.  The "phrase" cheaper by the dozen means that it you buy 12 (a dozen) of something, it is cheaper than paying for one at a time.  For instance, let's say that one egg costs $1, but 12 (a dozen) eggs costs only $11, you save money by buying the dozen, because twelve eggs should cost $12.
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It's a quote by "Rich Dad" in the book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki.  I don't have the exact page number but it's within the first 10% of the book as an intro to why he wrote the book in the first place.
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It started in Japan. It refered to when people sold their own things (like their kimono, hair ornaments, and art) to make money during the depression of WWII. Not heavy illegal like the black market,
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There was an old radio show called "The $64 Question". Yes, $64 was the top prize! This was later adapted for television as "The $64,000 Question".....but the original was so ingrained into the language (at least in North America) that the expression is still used today.
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It's not a place, but originated as the name of a book "Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero" by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. Vanity Fair was published as a serial between January 1847 and July 1848.\nIt has been made into a move (two or three times I think) and is also the name of a fashion magazine and a line of lingerie.
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No. where did you get that from?
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a dozen and 1/2 dozen (18 cents) ? or a dozen and 1/2egg (12.5 cents)?
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It is attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette of France, married to Louis XVI, guillotined both of them during the French Revolution.\n\nPeople quote her as saying it when she was told that the people didn't have enough bread to eat, to show how heartless and out of touch with the plight of the common subject she was. It was propaganda which proved very useful in bringing her to her ultimate death.\n\nTaken in context, the remark isn't nearly as callous, however. "Cake" was not what we think of as cake--a delicacy or a fancy dessert. No, instead, it was another form of starch, more akin to our cornbread. It was coarser than regular bread, cost less to make and to buy, and was generally consumed by the lower classes.  So when Marie Antionette was told that the people had no finely ground, white flour bread to eat, her reply that they could eat cake, was not so horrible after all. In fact, they COULD eat cake of that type. They just craved the finer, higher quality bread.\n\nNow for another "take on the cake" look at this site:\nhttp://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_334.html\n\nDear Cecil:\n\nDid the French queen, Marie Antoinette, ever actually utter the phrase, "Let them eat cake"? I have a friend who claims that Crazy Marie actually said something in French that, in phonetic spelling, merely sounded like "Let them eat cake." Is the line in a class with Humphrey Bogart's "Play it again, Sam"--i.e., bogus? --Willie H., Chicago\n\nDear Willie:\n\nI have a dream that someday one of these alleged facts of history is actually going to pan out. However, today is not the day. While Marie Antoinette was certainly enough of a bubblehead to have said the phrase in question, there is no evidence that she actually did so, and in any case she did not originate it. The peasants-have-no-bread story was in common currency at least since the 1760s as an illustration of the decadence of the aristocracy. The political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau mentions it in his Confessions in connection with an incident that occurred in 1740. (He stole wine while working as a tutor in Lyons and then had problems trying to scrounge up something to eat along with it.) He concludes thusly: "Finally I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: 'Well, let them eat cake.'" \n\nNow, J.-J. may have been embroidering this yarn with a line he had really heard many years later. But even so, at the time he was writing--early 1766--Marie Antoinette was only ten years old and still four years away from her marriage to the future Louis XVI. Writer Alphonse Karr in 1843 claimed that the line originated with a certain Duchess of Tuscany in 1760 or earlier, and that it was attributed to Marie Antoinette in 1789 by radical agitators who were trying to turn the populace against her.\n\nAs for your friend's suggestion, I suppose it's possible that one day, while under the influence of powerful hallucinogens, Marie said Le theme est quete ("The theme is quest"), and was overheard by an English-speaking tourist--thus giving rise, as your friend suggests, to the "Let them eat cake" legend. But frankly I doubt it.\n\nLET THEM EAT POT SCRAPINGS\n\nDear Cecil: \n\nThank you for so nobly coming to the defense of the much-maligned Marie Antoinette, just as you did a few years ago with the equally vilified Catherine the Great. And now, as Paul Harvey would say, here's the rest of the story ...\n\nAt the time that whoever-she-was uttered the infamous quotation "let them eat cake," the word "cake" did not refer to the familiar dessert item that the modern-day French call le gateau. The operative term was brioche, a flour-and-water paste that was "caked" onto the interiors of the ovens and baking pans of the professional boulangers of the era. (The modern equivalent is the oil-and-flour mixture a
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From the below article:\n\nFor also in the 1840s, pomme frites ("fried potatoes") first appeared in Paris. Sadly, we don't know the name of the ingenious chef who first sliced the potato into long slender pieces and fried them. But they were immediately popular, and were sold on the streets of Paris by push-cart vendors.
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This originated in the early 1980s. It is generally regarded as an American expression. This item from the New York newspaper the Syracuse Herald-American, Feb. 1982, which is the earliest version in print that I can find, puts that in some doubt. It's in a piece by Jerry Buck, writing out of Los Angeles, about actress Lauren Tewes
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even stevens/even stephens - equal measures, fair shares, especially financial or value - earliest origins and associations are probably found in Jonathan Swift's 'Journal To Stella' written 20 Jan 1748: "Now we are even quoth Stephen, when he gave his wife six blows for one". A separate and possibly main contributory root is the fact that 'Steven' or 'Stephen' was English slang for money from early 1800's, probably from Dutch stiver/stuiver/stuyver, meaning something of little value, from the name for a low value coin which at one time was the smallest monetary unit in the Cape (presumably South Africa) under the Dutch East India Company, equal to about an old English penny. An expression seems to have appeared in the 1800's 'Steven's at home' meaning one has money. The alliterative (rhyming) sound of the expression would have made it a natural reference or paired words expression and ensured common usage. People like saying things that trip comfortably off the tongue. (ref Cassell)
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No more than 30 cents.
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1960\nTom Monaghan and his brother James purchase "DomiNick's," a pizza store in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Monaghan borrowed $500 to buy the store.\n1961\nJames trades his half of the business to Tom for a Volkswagen Beetle.\n\n1965\nTom Monaghan is sole owner of company, and renames the business "Domino's Pizza, Inc."
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It's from the Count of Monte Christo by Baroness D'Orcay (not sure of the spelling here)so maybe if you look that up on the net - I think it was 'All the money to buy Italy' - but i'm not 100% sure. Chapter 18 of the book tings a bell - Good Luck!
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Heheehe where did you get that from?
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The number (12) came first before the name (dozen)...\n\nSo the question should have been: Why is 12 named a dozen?\n\nLike:\n\nWhy is 1 cent called a penny?\n\nWhy is 5 cents called a nickel?\n\nWhy is 10 cents called a dime?\n\nWhy is 25 cents called a quarter?\n\nGet it?
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The cheapest price on froogle is $600