Never give a sucker an even break

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Don't hesitate to take advantage of a fool.

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notes for Never give a sucker an even break

This saying served as the title for one of the films of the comedian W. C. Fields.

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How to use Never give a sucker an even break in a sentence

Alcohol and sugar, even in moderate amounts, are not only sinful but poisonous.
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But give the Kingdom credit for its sense of mercy: The lashes will be administered only 50 at a time.
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This is even more striking in Submission than in his previous books.
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The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.
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He looks like a man who should have had kids, but now never will.
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Bessires was included because he would never win it at any later date, but his doglike devotion made him a priceless subordinate.
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Some were even re-arrested for the same nefarious purpose, and the daily papers published their names on each occasion.
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Even as they gazed they saw its roof caught up, and whirled off as if it had been a scroll of paper.
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Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.
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Arches more graceful in form, or better fitted to defy the assaults of time, I have never seen.
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Other Idioms and Phrases with Never give a sucker an even break

never give a sucker an even break

Don't allow a person who's easily duped a fair chance, as in He's always trying to give out expired coupons for his store, firmly believing in never giving a sucker an even break. Probably a direct quotation, it has been attributed to showman P. T. Barnum (responsible for the oft-quoted “There's a sucker born every minute”); and comedian W. C. Fields (who popularized it in one of his films); and theater manager Edward Francis Albee, the most probable of the three. [Slang; early 1900s]