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Larry Holt
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Agreed with the origin as an "Old West" originidiom... In the late 1800's, "suit yourself" was the implication that if you wanted to engage in a gunfight, and your opponent expected you to lose, thusresulting in you ending up in a pine box with a new suit from the local undertaker. The man who assumed he was going to win the fight would say to the expected loser "Suit yourself".

Agreed with the "Old West" origin... In the late 1800's, "suit yourself" was the implication that if you wanted to engage in a gunfight, and your opponent expected you to lose, thus ending up in a pine box with a new suit from the local undertaker. The man who assumed he was going to win the fight would say to the expected loser "Suit yourself".

Agreed with the origin as an "Old West" idiom... In the late 1800's, "suit yourself" was the implication that if you wanted to engage in a gunfight, and your opponent expected you to lose, resulting in you ending up in a pine box with a new suit from the local undertaker. The man who assumed he was going to win the fight would say to the expected loser "Suit yourself".

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Agreed with the "Old West" origin... In the late 1800's, "suit yourself" was the implication that if you wanted to engage in a gunfight, and your opponent expected you to lose, thus ending up in a pine box with a new suit from the local undertaker. The man who assumed he was going to win the fight would say to the expected loser "Suit yourself".