English Explanatory Dictionary

get big or get out

English dictionary entry

Meanings

phrase
  1. An exhortation and admonition to family farms as businesses, or to other businesses in other industries, that they need to either expand their operations and capitalization or be outcompeted (by those who do so) and thus go out of business.

Word forms

get big or get out

Etymology

Popularized by (and perhaps coined by) Earl Butz, a U.S. secretary of agriculture in the 1970s.

Related words

all-or-nothing all-or-nothing thinking Big Ag Big Food chickenize factory farming Tescoization Walmartize
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