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you don't know what you've got till it's gone

you don't know what you've got till it's gone is the alternative form of you never know what you've got till it's gone.

Meaning of you never know what you've got till it's gone

Proverb

you never know what you've got till it's gone

  1. People tend to take things for granted while they are available.

Questions about you don't know what you've got till it's gone

What is you don't know what you've got till it's gone the alternative form of?
You don't know what you've got till it's gone is the alternative form of you never know what you've got till it's gone.

Words near you don't know what you've got till it's gone in the dictionary

  1. you don't fish off the company pier
  2. you don't get owt for nowt
  3. you don't get something for nothing
  4. you don't get your nookie where you get your cookies
  5. you don't know what you're talking about
  6. you don't know what you've got till it's gone
  7. you don't know where it's been
  8. you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire
  9. you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire
  10. you don't miss the water till the well runs dry
  11. you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

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