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you can't win
Idioms and Phrases
Also, you just can't win . Whatever one does is wrong or not enough, as in Every time I block one of the woodchuck's holes, I find another; you just can't win . [First half of 1900s] For a synonym, see damned if I do, damned if I don't .Example Sentences
"What that means is that in every constituency there would be an effective electoral threshold of 13, 14 or maybe 15%, so if you can't win that share of the vote or higher, you are not going to win any seats and that really squeezes these smaller parties," he said.
"You can't win an election if you're not trusted to run the economy. And Labour has a historical problem that goes back a very, very long way," she tells me.
You can't win the title on moving day, they say, but you can certainly lose it.
You can’t win with these people.
It seems that both the CCP and Heritage believe that if you can’t win an argument in the digital space of Wikipedia, it’s fair game to destroy that person’s life offline.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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