if you can't lick them, join them
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English[edit]
Proverb[edit]
if you can't lick them, join them
- Alternative form of if you can't beat them, join them
- 1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction[1], page 58:
- "It don't pay to worry and try to change the world," he pointed out. "I always say take things the way they are. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em."