Question: Where does the saying price of tea in china come from?
Disambiguated questions and answers: question: What is the economic origin of the saying price of tea in china come from?
What is the 19th century origin of the saying price of tea in china come from?
answer: economists, who describe everything economic as affecting everything else, trying to find an expression which denotes the farthest logical connection from their current economic focus, in a sort of butterfly effect.[2] In this way, the price of tea in China was used to denote the farthest possibility.
the "price of tea in China" was something that really didn't matter for the ship owners. They had to have the tea in England as fast as possible
Natural Questions answer: economists (from the Wikipedia article "What's that got to do with the...?")