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you can't break sticks in a bundle

you can't break sticks in a bundle is the alternative form of sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.

Meaning of sticks in a bundle are unbreakable

Proverb

sticks in a bundle are unbreakable

  1. A group of people who are cooperating can succeed in a situation where an individual person cannot.
    • Sticks in a bundle can’t be broken but sticks taken singly can be easily broken. Same applies to people.2013 November 16, “The Father, His Sons, and The Bundle of Sticks”, in Fables of Aesop, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2017, retrieved 21 May 2017

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You can't break sticks in a bundle is the alternative form of sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.

Words near you can't break sticks in a bundle in the dictionary

  1. you can take the monkey out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the monkey
  2. you can talk
  3. you can't be half pregnant
  4. you can't break a stick in a bundle
  5. you can't break a twig in a bundle
  6. you can't break sticks in a bundle
  7. you can't catch old birds with chaff
  8. you can't fight City Hall
  9. you can't fix stupid
  10. you can't get a quart into a pint pot
  11. you can't get something for nothing

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