you can't win

Idioms  

1. Also, you just can't win. Whatever one does is wrong or not enough, as in Every time I block one of the woodchuck's holes, I find another; you just can't win. [First half of 1900s] For a synonym, see damned if I do, damned if I don't.

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Example Sentences

"Chasing 180-185, you can't win the game in the power play, but you might lose it," he said after his side stumbled to 31-3 after six overs, which became 43-4 a few balls later and then 51-5.

From Barron's

"You can't win," Martina says.

From BBC

If you can’t hit, you can’t win.

From The Wall Street Journal

"You're expected to be a parent like you don't work, but work like you haven't got kids. You can't win."

From BBC

When former Liverpool defender Alan Hansen declared at the start of the 1995-96 Premier League season "You can't win anything with kids", Alex Ferguson's young Manchester United stars went on to prove him wrong.

From BBC