caveat emptor
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As the phrase goes in Latin — caveat emptor, or “let the buyer beware.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 4, 2024
"This is one of the caveat emptor things that all foreign would-be acquirers should keep in mind."
From Reuters • Aug. 31, 2023
Obviously I am biased—for most of my life, I have been deeply invested in the idea that they matter—so caveat emptor.
From Slate • Jul. 29, 2019
I don’t mind saying upfront that I generally regard professional psychics with a heavy dollop of caveat emptor.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2017
But competition quickly found that the best means—the finest battle-sword—was honest commercial practice, and so girded that sword to its belt and bade caveat emptor begone.
From The Romance of a Great Store by Hungerford, Edward