English / proverb
If You Can't Lick Them, Join Them
MEANING IN ENGLISH
If you cannot overpower or defeat your competitors, it is best to ally with them.
In context
01
The small bookstore chain realized that if you can't lick them, join them, so they began selling through large digital marketplaces.
02
Rather than waging a losing price war against the retail giant, the supplier figured if you can't lick them, join them.
Synonyms
form a strategic alliance,make peace with the rival,capitulate pragmatically
Antonyms
stand defiant,wage war indefinitely,refuse to compromise
Collocations
reasoned that if you can't lick them,figure if you can't lick them,motto of if you can't lick them