文polyglot.
← English dictionary
English / proverb

How You Get Them Is How You Lose Them

MEANING IN ENGLISH

Relationships, advantages, or wealth acquired through dubious or disloyal means will disappear in the exact same manner.

In context

01

He stole that client using deceptive promises, forgetting that how you get them is how you lose them.

02

When his co-conspirator turned against him, the boss realized how you get them is how you lose them.

Synonyms

easy come easy go,ill-gotten gains never prosper,what goes around comes around

Antonyms

honesty endures,earned trust lasts

Collocations

remember that how you get them is how you lose them,warns that how you get them is how you lose them,proves how you get them is how you lose them

Sources

Bidyazo vocabulary library ↗