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单词 you can't take it with you
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Idioms and Phrases with You can't take it with you

you can't take it with you

Enjoy material things while you're alive, as in Go ahead and buy the fancier car; you can't take it with you. This phrase gained currency as the title of a very popular play (1936) by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart and of the 1938 film based on it. [First half of 1800s]

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You can't take it with you


We all must leave worldly wealth behind when we die.

notes for You can't take it with you

This proverb was used as the title of a comedy by the twentieth-century American playwrights Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. You Can't Take It with You concerns an unconventional family fiercely opposed to materialistic values.

Words nearby You can't take it with you

You Can't Go Home Again, You can't have your cake and eat it too, You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear, You can't squeeze blood from a turnip, You can't take it with you, You can't teach an old dog new tricks, You can't unscramble an egg, you can't win, you can't win 'em all, you could cut it with a knife
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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