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Proverbial Meaning: When you find something that
isn't yours, that the original owner has lost, you are allowed to keep it.
Literal Origins: Things that are found can be kept.
Common Usage: Although most English speakers would
never phrase it this way, almost everyone will know what it means and will have
heard its more common usage, "finders keepers". It is often used as a thinly
disguised excuse to take something that isn't yours, to make one feel that it
isn't theft when, in actual fact, it is.
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