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Buying a car

  1. I dropped a bundle on it, but I’m glad I bought it.
  2. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
  3. How can I resist?
  4. I might as well.
  5. You never get something for nothing.
  6. It’s growing on me.
  7. It’s the best that I can do.

Buying a car

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Salesman losing a sale

  1. It’s back to square one.
  2. Let the chips fall where they may.
  3. So much for that.
  4. It will all come out in the wash.
  5. What can I tell you?
  6. It happens to the best of us.
  7. It’s all in a day’s work.
  8. Well, that’s the way it goes.

Salesman losing a sale

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Breaking up with someone

  1. It’s gone with the wind.
  2. It doesn’t matter.
  3. That’s the way it is.
  4. It makes good sense.
  5. Different strokes for different folks.
  6. I’ll just have to learn to live with it.
  7. It was nice while it lasted.
  8. It’s over once and for all.
  9. It’s over and done with.
  10. It’s all the same to me.
  11. It’s a little depressing, but what can I do?
  12. You take the good with the bad.
  13. To each his own.
  14. Her heart is in the right place.
  15. That’s what makes the world go round.
  16. It takes all kinds.
  17. I guess I got more out of it than I thought I had.
  18. All good things much come to an end.
  19. So much for that.
  20. I'm haunted by the fact that perhaps it didn't have to be this way, but it doesn't look like there's not much I can do about it at this point.
  21. It's a fait accompli.

Breaking up with someone

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Asking someone for a date, and being told no

  1. I’m hearing the message loud and clear.
  2. All’s fair in love and war.
  3. Time heals all wounds.
  4. I could have guessed as much.
  5. I guess it just wasn’t meant to be.
  6. It doesn’t matter to me in the least.
  7. I get the drift.
  8. That’s just the way people are.
  9. I don’t really mind.
  10. Love makes the world go around.
  11. Your wish is my command.
  12. You can’t say I didn’t try.

Asking someone for a date, and being told no

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Choosing where to put your investment money

  1. Only time will tell.
  2. You do what you have to.
  3. There’s something to be said for it.
  4. This is a good as time as any.
  5. We’ll worry about that when the time comes.
  6. Things will come to those who wait.
  7. It works both ways.
  8. That’s what it’s all about.
  9. It’s six of one, half a dozen of the other.
  10. I have half a mind to do just that.
  11. I’m biding my time.
  12. Thing’s stand as they are.
  13. It doesn’t make sense to do it any other way.

Choosing where to put your investment money

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Losing an election

  1. I guess I had it coming to me.
  2. It’s just wasn’t in the cards.
  3. You win some, you loose some.
  4. I guess I’ll just have to learn to live with it.
  5. I think I got the picture.
  6. That’s about the size of it.
  7. He was bound and determined to do it.
  8. He won, hands down.
  9. He’s a better man than I am.
  10. It’s was a forgone conclusion.
  11. The show’s over.
  12. That’s just the way it is.
  13. It was a missed opportunity.
  14. I had a feeling that would happen.

Losing an election

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Hearing the stock market went down

  1. I don’t know if it’s of comfort to any of us, but we’re all in the same boat.
  2. I have no gripe and no regrets, because I went into the situation with my eyes wide open.
  3. You win some you loose some.
  4. I can live with that.
  5. That’s show biz.
  6. What goes up has to come down.
  7. Oh, well.
  8. I saw the handwriting on the wall.

Hearing the stock market went down

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Telling someone a secret

  1. The less said about it the better.
  2. Don’t breathe a word of it.
  3. I was sworn to secrecy.
  4. Mum’s the word.
  5. This could be something that I might come to regret.
  6. This might be against my better judgement.
  7. I have to ask myself, why am I doing this?

Telling someone a secret

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Being bypassed for a promotion

  1. That’s life in the fast lane.
  2. What’s done is done.
  3. I guess it’s the way it had to be.
  4. Maybe it’s all for the best.
  5. It doesn’t really matter one way or another.
  6. That’s the way people are.
  7. It’s not that important.
  8. I’m humbled.
  9. Go right ahead, I don’t mind.
  10. We should just learn from our mistakes.
  11. You’re the boss.
  12. Let’s chalk it up to experience.

Being bypassed for a promotion

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After an operation

  1. It’s just going to take time.
  2. I’m feeling as well as can be expected given the circumstances.
  3. I think for a while I’ll just have to get used to living with it hanging over my head.
  4. I’ll take each day as it comes.
  5. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
  6. It is what it is.
  7. I can’t complain.
  8. Every cloud has a silver lining.
  9. It takes some getting used to.
  10. At first after the operation, I felt achy all over, but I recovered bit by bit, day by day, slowly but surely.
  11. It could have been a whole lot worse.
  12. Life has its challenges.

After an operation

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Thinking of dating someone from the wrong side of the tracks

  1. I feel that persion might be a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
  2. Assumptions can be deceptive.
  3. I don’t know where this is all heading.
  4. If you ask me I think I should just call the whole thing off.
  5. I think that could be like opening up a Pandora’s box.
  6. That might be wishful thinking.
  7. Curiosity killed the cat.
  8. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
  9. I have a funny feeling that I should drop it like a hot potato if I know what’s good for me.
  10. Am I seeing the world with rose colored glasses?

Thinking of dating someone from the wrong side of the tracks

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Not catching a fish

  1. Kiss this one goodbye.
  2. It’s not like I have much of a choice.
  3. I’ll be darned if I can help it.
  4. That’s the way it is.
  5. It’s not that bad.
  6. There’s not much I can do about it now.
  7. I’m going to let bygones be bygones.

Not catching a fish