YOU PAYS YOUR MONEY, AND YOU TAKES YOUR CHANCE (3)

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(colloquial) what will happen is a matter of chance or luck. A variation of the phrase you pays your money and you takes your choice, suggesting that when faced with a choice between two similar possibilities or alternatives, one might just as well rely on luck. The phrase comes from a rhyme used by English traders with market stalls: / "Whatever you please my little dears: / You pays your money and you takes your choice. / You pays your money and what you sees is / A cow or a donkey just as you pleases." —SHSBC Binder 14 Approved Glossary