What You See — IB0409 | Busy Beaver Button Museum

Category	Ice Breakers
Additional Images
Text on Button	WhAt you see is whAT you GeT
Image Description	Black background with orange text
Curl Text	Copyright Best Seal Corp. NY. NY 10013. 1971
Back Style	Unlocking pin
The Shape	Circle
The Size	1 1/4 inch
Year / Decade Made	1970s 1971
The Manufacturer	Best Seal Corp
Additional Information	"What you see is what you get" is an expression popularized by Flip Wilson in his performance as the drag character Geraldine in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the late 1960s and on The Flip Wilson Show. Evidence suggests that the phrase was coined in the 1940s; the earliest citation of a form of the phrase traces back to an ad for a Filmo Sportster 8mm film camera in The Charleston Gazette in November 1949: "You just sight, press a button and what you see, you get!" The citation of the phrase in its exact form was first seen in print from an ad for a house sale, in The Oakland Tribune, May 1966: "So with the exception of landscaping and decorator furnishings, what you see is what you get."
Sources	The meaning and origin of the expression: What you see is what you get. (n.d.). In The Phrase Finder. Retrieved from: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/what-you-see-is-what-you-get.html.
Catalog ID	IB0409