long firm

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English

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Etymology

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  • Perhaps from the idea that such a firm (company) would claim to have been established for a long time.
  • Perhaps from Old English gelang (“fraudulent”) and Italian firma (“signature”).[1]The template Template:rfv-etym does not use the parameter(s): 
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Noun

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long firm (plural long firms)

  1. A company of swindlers who obtain goods on pretence of being established in business, and then decamp without payment to do the same elsewhere.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Dan Davies (2018) Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World, page 28
  2. ^ John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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