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Can’t win for losing

When you voluntarily lose (to make someone feel better, to end an argument), and then the situation gets even worse. So, what you thought you would gain by losing on purpose is lost anyway.

It’s a colloquial equivalent to paving the road to hell with good intentions.

(A lot of people writing their definitions for this are trying to make logic out of the phrasing but weren’t around when this phrase was more popular, leading to incorrect definitions.)
I let my spouse win the argument to calm down the situation, and now I’m getting criticized for not sticking up for myself. I can’t win for losing!
by Jemie Weino October 8, 2022
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lose a mower

losing a mowing in plants vs zombies is basically ego death because of how easy the game is, so losing a mower is ego death of the highest extreme.
" I'd rather die than lose a mower"
"Death or mower loss"
by Manmanmanman September 6, 2023
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Lose some truck

Means to kill yourself or for someone to try to do creepy shit to your your heart
Lose some truck, that C-10 never had a chance against some tree
by YournameisTwat June 18, 2025
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Never lose your smile

{Phrase}
a Fascistic neo Nazi dog whistle That is used in various far right online chat forums as well as mainstream social media comment sections (Instagram and tik tok especially) . It's usually paired up with the SS-Totenkopf and it essentially connotes to "never giving up the Furher's (Adolf hitler) dream (the ethnic extermination of "inferior" races and people). Individuals who use this phrase are usually radicalized neo Nazis who aim to re-establish the third Reich and fascism into society.
"we must never let the Furhers dream Die!"

"Never lose your smile brothers!"
by malanthropicaction January 17, 2024
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Literally every Destiny says in relationship to ME is a manifestation of THAT EXACT THOUGHT.
Hym "Because when I suceed ALL OF THE IMPOSTERS LOSE EVERYTHING. No more interviews with Jordan Peterson. No more sycophants hanging on your every word. No more authority on any topic. Gone. And the people stupid enough to side against me are gone with them. 'I'm AfRaId Of LoSiNg My ChAnNeL!' You are going to lose your freedom if I'm right about your wife. Which (based on your obsession with me) I am."
by Hym Iam August 24, 2024
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Losing

1.) The act of not achieving something

2.) The act of not being able to find something

3.) NYC term used to describe someone who is confused about something or if something is gay
1.) Jake is losing the game
2.) Kayla keeps losing her damn car keys!
3.) Rico: It’s mad cold in here I need a blanket
Josh: I can be ya blanket

Rico: ngl you lost me
by NYC_Tez September 5, 2021
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win-lose bargaining

The result of a possible win-win scenario in which the clear beneficiary of the win-win scenario fails to keep their end of the bargain, resulting later into a win-lose scenario.

Commonly found with people who fail to transition a informal verbal agreement to a formal written agreement, backstabbers, double-cross someone, or dealing with someone with a "do nothin', get everythin'" mentality.
1.) When Paul failed to wash the dishes all week after his father let him go to a party the previous week, his father realized that he was a victim of win-lose bargaining.

2.) Mike had been involved with some win-lose bargaining when he and Ken agreed to split the bill only for Ken to leave without notice, leaving Mike to pay for the large meal.

3.) When someone agrees to give another head after they themselves have been given head, but then leaves, the giver of head is on the losing side of the win-lose bargaining.
by lastray February 23, 2011
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