free lunch
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editfree lunch (plural free lunches)
- (idiomatic) Something obtained without any payment, obligation or effort.
- 1999 October 7, Joseph Yam, “A tribute to Philip Haddon-Cave”, in Hong Kong Monetary Authority[1], archived from the original on 1 July 2023:
- He had also been under some pressure from up the hill (Murray MacLehose) to spend more, on social welfare, on public housing, on medical and health, on law and order — an endless list of highly desirable causes as well as a few free lunches.
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