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you have to be in it to win it

you have to be in it to win it is the alternative form of you've got to be in it to win it.

Meaning of you've got to be in it to win it

Proverb

you've got to be in it to win it

  1. In order to win, or succeed at something, one must first compete or try.

Questions about you have to be in it to win it

What is you have to be in it to win it the alternative form of?
You have to be in it to win it is the alternative form of you've got to be in it to win it.

Words near you have to be in it to win it in the dictionary

  1. you had one job
  2. you had to be there
  3. you happy jiu OK
  4. you have beautiful eyes
  5. you have to be good to be lucky
  6. you have to be in it to win it
  7. you haven't lived
  8. you hear me
  9. you hear what I'm saying
  10. you just had to
  11. you kiss your father with that mouth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: you have to be in it to win it (page history and authors); you've got to be in it to win it (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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