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if you can't lick them, join them

if you can't lick them, join them is the alternative form of if you can't beat them.

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What is if you can't lick them, join them the alternative form of?
If you can't lick them, join them is the alternative form of if you can't beat them.

Words near if you can't lick them, join them in the dictionary

  1. if you can't beat them, eat them
  2. if you can't beat them, join them
  3. if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull
  4. if you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, blind them with bullshit
  5. if you can't do the time, don't do the crime
  6. if you can't lick them, join them
  7. if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
  8. if you don't ask, you don't get
  9. if you don't mind me saying
  10. if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging
  11. if you fly with the crows, you get shot with the crows

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