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- we knew that their claim of giving "the best deal in town" was just a shibboleth
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- there's a lot of truth in the shibboleth that if you give some people an inch, they'll take a mile
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“Shibboleth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shibboleth. Accessed 27 Oct. 2020.
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The first known use of shibboleth was in 1638
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