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no pain, no gain
Idioms and Phrases
Suffering is needed to make progress, as in I've worked for hours on those irregular French verbs, but no pain, no gain . Although this idiom is often associated with athletic coaches who urge athletes to train harder, it dates from the 1500s and was already in John Ray's proverb collection of 1670 as “Without pains, no gains.”Example Sentences
"No pain, no gain — that’s what we used to tell our football players," Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., said, falsely equating exercise, which promotes muscle growth, with sales taxes, which suppress consumer spending and shrink the economy.
No pain, no gain seems to be the part of Clarke's grand plan, though.
“I was trained in that atmosphere of ‘no pain no gain,’ ” Seiler explains, looking Room Rater–ready in front of a wall of books and speaking to me over Zoom through what sounded like a professional microphone.
A note to those local officials: No pain, no gain.
This is not a time for the ‘no pain, no gain’ mantra.
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