buyer beware

Cookbook Buyer beware: This book is for true Italians only—and not written in English!

"Let the buyer beware" may be specially said of this class of shopping.

But there is 123something in Latin about caveat emptor, which is short for “Let the buyer beware!”

Caveat emptor, "Let the buyer beware," was seemingly the dominating retail motto of those days.

Until the day when the world is a perfect place, we simply have to take caveat emptor to heart—let the buyer beware.

That legal Latin maxim, "Let the buyer beware," is a legal fiction.