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Word play in lam / Lim’s.

Then there’s the slang idiom on the lam and the diner in the strip.

On the lam ‘in flight, on the run (esp. from the law)’ is attested from 1897; from a slang verb ‘to run away’ (of uncertain origin) from 1886.

Lim’s Cafe is a Chinese restaurant/diner in Redding CA (592 N Market St.). A photo:

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