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

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

"What that means is that in every constituency there would be an effective electoral threshold of 13, 14 or maybe 15%, so if you can't win that share of the vote or higher, you are not going to win any seats and that really squeezes these smaller parties," he said.

From BBC

You can't win the title on moving day, they say, but you can certainly lose it.

From BBC