Sports locutions

[Charles Doyle]

Perhaps a blend (!) of "He can't win for losing" with "You can't blame him for trying"?

--Charlie
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>Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:22:47 +0000
>From: ronbutters at AOL.COM
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>This one has to be as old as the 1940's (probably older). It was a favorite of my mother (b 1918).
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>Charlie writes:

>"He can't win for trying."  That one gets some 630 Google hits, and 20 in Google Books (the earliest being from 1978, the others from the 1990s and beyond).

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