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One explanation is that this comes from a "lass and a lakh a day" - a lakh being 100,000 rupees. This indicated the lavish lifestyle of white 'servants' (i.e. employees) of the English East India Company in Bengal, in the 18th century.

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Q: Where did the expression A 'Lass and a Lack' come from?
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