no bucks, no Buck Rogers
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[edit]Proverb
[edit]- One must raise money to be able to achieve one's objectives, especially in the exploration of outer space.
- 2016 Nov. 30, Lee Billings, Trump’s First 100 Days: Space," Scientific American (retrieved 7 Oct 2017):
- Whether NASA under Trump will stay the course . . . an old adage attributed to its first human spaceflights of the 1960s is likely to define its fate: no bucks, no Buck Rogers.
- 2016 Nov. 30, Lee Billings, Trump’s First 100 Days: Space," Scientific American (retrieved 7 Oct 2017):
Usage notes
[edit]- Notably used in the motion picture The Right Stuff (1983).