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you can't win them all (1953 R. CHANDLER Long Good-bye xxiv. Wade took him by the shoulder and spun him round. ‘Take it easy, Doc. You can’t win them all.’ 1984 ‘C. AIRD’ Harm’s Way xviii. ‘The finger being found on the footpath was just bad luck on the murderer’s part.’ ‘You can’t win them all,’ said Crosby ambiguously. 2002 Washington Post 18 Mar. C11 (Born Loser comic strip) ‘They say you can’t win them all..however, as evidenced by Brutus Thornapple, evidently you can lose them all!’ Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs Alexander Demidov) |
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it's a case of swings and roundabouts (Naka85) |
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it's swings and roundabouts |