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If you can't beat them, join them |
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If you can't beat them, join them. and If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. Prov. If you have to give up fighting some group because you can't win, band together with them. (The version with lick is informal.) Jill: I just got a kitten. Jane: I can't believe it! You used to hatepeople who owned cats. Jill: If you can't beat them, join them. Alan: I hear you're a Republican now. Fred: Yeah, I figured, if you can't lick 'em, join 'em. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It's one of those things, if you can't beat them, join them," Glaz said. You know what they say: If you can't beat them, join them. This appears to have a direct relationship to the slowly growing success of store brands in this country and to the added attention that big brand producers are giving to working with distributors of store brands - which seems to say: if you can't beat them, join them. |
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