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If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.

Without googling or checking reference resources, what do you think this proverb means?

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4 Comments

  1. Katrin

    If it proofs to be impossible to fight off influential people it is best to bond with them and try to get them on your side.

  2. Amy Estrada

    Good Katrin. One correction: If it proves…

  3. Nia Khairina

    I think this proverb is about admitting defeat. If we can’t win from our rivals, we should join them and gain an advantage.

  4. Amy Estrada

    Yes Nia.

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