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You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds (You cannot) teach an old dog new tricks; You cannot unscramble eggs; You cannot win them all; You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar; You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain; You pay your money and you take your choice
In the song "Hey You" (performed and written by the band Pink Floyd), a similar term with the same meaning, "Together we stand, divided we fall," is used as the final lyrics. Tupac Shakur used the line "united we stand, divided we fall." in the song "Last Wordz" of his second album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. featuring Ice Cube and Ice-T.
This is a list of catchphrases found in American and British english language television and film, where a catchphrase is a short phrase or expression that has gained usage beyond its initial scope. These are not merely catchy sayings.
The meaning is that something undesirable is going to happen again and that there is not much else one can do other than just endure it. The Log , the humour magazine written by and for Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy , featured a series of comics entitled "The Bohica Brothers", dating back to the early 1970s.
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
Business Insider examined dozens of federal trade secrets claims filed by companies over the past decade against current and former employees who also had filed a claim against their employer.
Klein's words are often summarized as "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win", and misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi, [6] [7] who made different remarks to a similar effect in a 1920 speech at Muzaffarabad, included in Freedom’s Battle. [a] A possible precursor [9] is "All truth passes through three ...
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