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Old 16-May-2007, 13:44
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do you know the meaning of the idiomatic word "Finder's Keepers"? please let me know and kindly email it to my yahoo account.
thanks and best regards...

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"You have found a diamond, so you have the right to keep it."

A phrase often used by those who know they really ought not to keep the found object. It has a second part:

Finders keepers; Losers weepers.

nb: it is plural throughout.
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