finders\ keepers

finders\ keepers
• finders keepers
• finders keepers, losers weepers
informal
those who find lost things can keep them. - Used usually by children to claim the right to keep something they have found.

I don't have to give it back; it's finders keepers.

Finders keepers, losers weepers! It's my knife now!


Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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