modern proverbs

[Jonathan Lighter]

2005 Brian L. Goff _From the Ballfield to the Boardroom_ (Westport, Conn.: Praeger/Greenwood) 140: Former University of Texas football coach Darryl Royal was fond of the expression, "You gotta dance with the one that brung ya." He usually meant that his team had to stick to a particular strategy that had been successful in the past regardless of the game situation or moves by the opponent.

  The saying is featured prominently in the film _Fighting Seabees_ (1944) with John Wayne and Susan Hayward.

  Hundreds of Googlits.

  JL


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