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cheaters never prosper

People who use dishonest means will not find true success. Primarily heard in US. I'm not too worried about Eric getting ahead of me in the class rankings. I know he cheated on his last test, and cheaters never prosper! I would never have an affair because I know that cheaters never prosper! Don't worry, that shyster will get his comeuppance one of these days—cheaters never prosper!
See also: cheaters, never, prosper

cheats never prosper

proverb People who use dishonest means will not find true success. I'm not too worried about Eric getting ahead of me in the class rankings. I know he cheated on his last test, and cheats never prosper! I would never have an affair because I know that cheats never prosper! Don't worry, that shyster will get his comeuppance one of these days—cheats never prosper!
See also: cheat, never, prosper
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Cheats never prosper.

 and Cheaters never prosper.
Prov. If you cheat people, they will not continue to do business with you, and so your business will fail. Customer: You charged me for ten artichokes, but you only gave me nine. Grocer: Too bad. You should have counted them before you paid for them. Customer: Cheats never prosper, you know.
See also: Cheat, never, prosper
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

cheaters

n. sunglasses. (see also shades, sunshades.) Get your cheaters on. The sun’s really bright.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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References in periodicals archive
Bronstein also has studied plant-pollinator mutualisms and says they have left her cautious about automatically treating cheaters as horrible menaces that demand a response.
There are cheaters who are savvy enough to create multiple identities on the 'net, or join several Internet dating services simultaneously, but are busted by their mate's Internet-surfing friends or family members who come across their bios and pictures.
To deter or discover cheaters in this Web-connected world, K-12 educators have an array of options at their disposal.
From finding the sneakiest places to stash cheat sheets to mastering the most sophisticated shortcuts available on the Internet, these days there are almost as many ways to cheat as there are cheaters. "Imagine if we could harness all the creativity that students put into thinking up these different techniques," says ethics expert Michael Josephson.
Also, emotions like anger may have evolved to discourage cheaters by eliciting disproportionate ("irrational") punishment reactions from victims.
According to AshleyMadison.com, nowadays cheaters put a lot more effort into keeping their affairs under wraps.
From this perspective, the author then explains why some bars are crowded one week and empty the next, why ethnic violence breaks out, and why cheaters, indeed, never win.
The more cheaters there are, the more corrupt society becomes.
Washington, Nov 29 ( ANI ): A revelation of an affair is a devastating blow to any relationship, but when the cheater blames their partner for creating a situation that "made them" vulnerable to the affair, that usually puts the shock and hurt over the top, an expert has revealed.
RAWALPINDI, July 04, 2010 (Balochistan Times): In a bid to discourage cheaters and booty mafia the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Rawalpindi has decided to display name, pictures and complete bio date of an examination cheater in national news papers, Controller of Examination Professor Abdul Sattar Ramay said Sunday.
The model for the emergence of a population of "cheaters" out of a population of "cooperators" described in "When Laziness Pays: Math explains how cooperation and cheating evolve" (SN: 1/15/05, p.
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