does Macy's tell Gimbel's

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#1·4h ago

(US, dated, colloquial, rhetorical question) A rhetorical question with the implied answer being that competitors do not share business secrets with one another.

Origin: Macy's and Gimbels (without the apostrophe) were popular department stores located within two blocks of one another in Midtown Manhattan in New York City; the latter store is now defunct. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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