The original mona lisa / I can give you fifty dollars.
A Pawn Stars post.
You list your perfectly good sofa on Facebook Marketplace for £80. First message: "Is this available? I'll do 20 and collect Thursday." Thursday comes. He offers 15. He's brought a van. Your annual review. You've covered for two people all year. Your manager leans back in his chair. Best he can do is 1.5 percent and a mug. The games shop offers £3 for your collection of 40 games. Then he rings a mate who's an expert in old games. The expert says £2. Every website says your car is worth £4,000. The dealer walks round it twice, kicks a tyre and says the best he can do is £900, and that's as a favour. **Why it caught on:** Rick Harrison runs the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas on History's Pawn Stars, which began in 2009, where he lowballs and calls in an expert. "Best I can do" fits every haggle, every pay rise and every negotiation you've ever lost.