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You can take a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink

see Take a horse to water


You can’t have your cake and eat it

see Have your cake and eat it


You never had it so good

‘You never had it so good’ was the slogan of the 1952 US Democrat election campaign. ‘The people of Britain have never had it so good’ was also the sl...

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You pays your money and you takes your choice

This British catchphrase, which means that one gets what one pays for was coined by Punch magazine in 1846.


Young buck

see Buck up


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