you can't win them all

English

Alternative forms

• you can't win 'em all (colloquial)

Proverb

you can't win them all

1. (informal) It is impossible to always succeed; failure or disappointment is inevitable from time to time.

   Synonym: you win some, you lose some

Translations

it is impossible to always succeed

• Finnish: aina ei voi voittaa
• Italian: non tutte le ciambelle riescono col buco
• Polish: raz na wozie, raz pod wozem (pl)

Further reading

• “you can't win them all”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/you-can-t-win-them-all?q%3Dyou+can%27t+win+them+all”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “you can't win 'em all”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.