词汇 | you can’t win ’em all |
词源 | you can’t win ’em all. Baseball legend attributes the saying you can’t win ’em all to Boston pitcher Clifton G. Curtis—who is a good choice, having lost 23 games in a row during the 1910–1911 seasons—but it probably goes back further. It is often used as a rueful expression said after one has failed at anything, or as a consoling remark to someone who has failed. |
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