Talk:ring the bell, win a cookie
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Nonce, right? --Connel MacKenzie 20:32, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
- It certainly looks like it: it gets a grand total of 0 gbs hits [1]. On the other hand, I have frequently heard cookie being given - in a sense that I think qualifies as idiomatic - as an example of a rather insignificant reward (as in the retort "what do you want, a cookie?" [2]). RobbieG 17:32, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
But compare: 1988, Stewart A. Washburn, Managing the Marketing Functions: The Challenge of Customer-Centered Enterprise, p. 285: "As with any incentive program, incentive compensation for salespeople is a ring-the-bell, win-a-cigar proposition". bd2412 T 04:55, 3 March 2008 (UTC)