LOL--I have some dear coworkers who seem to believe that I came up with the phrase "the juice isn't worth the squeeze".
That's a commonplace, isn't it? Have you encountered that phrase before today?
@rpardee Google's ngram viewer plots the popularity of a phrase in publications. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=worth+the+squeeze&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 /nosanitize
@rpardee the earliest I found for this phrase was in American Journal of Public Health, 1956. So unless you are (checks) Clements W Gaines and you wrote it in 1956, chances are you heard it from someone else.
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So in other words, "Is this a reasonable use of my time?"
@stueytheround @rpardee yes, exactly. Is the effort likely to yield results that will make the effort worthwhile.
@CarmenSlamdiego @stueytheround see also: "is the bang worth the buck?"