one man's loss is another man's gain

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• one man’s loss is another man’s gain — c 1527 T. BERTHELET tr. Erasmus’ Sayings of Wise Men D1v Lyghtly whan one wynneth, an other loseth. 1733 J. BARBER in Correspondence of Swift (1965) IV. 189 Your loss will be our gain, as the proverb says. 1821 SCOTT Pirate I. vi. Doubtless one… …   Proverbs new dictionary

• one man's loss is another man's gain — This means thato ne person s setback benefits someone else …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• loss — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Failure to keep Nouns loss; perdition; forfeiture, forfeit, lapse, detriment, privation, bereavement, deprivation, dispossession, riddance, waste, dissipation, expenditure, leakage; brain drain;… …   English dictionary for students

• one — see when one door shuts, another opens one for sorrow, two for mirth; three for a wedding, four for a birth one for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow one nail drives out another one size does not fit all …   Proverbs new dictionary

• man — see man cannot live by bread alone whatever man has done, man may do a man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks man is the measure of all things man proposes, God disposes man’s extremity is …   Proverbs new dictionary

• gain — noun see one man’s loss is another man’s gain there’s no great loss without some gain no pain, no gain verb see what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts nothing venture, nothing gain …   Proverbs new dictionary

• loss — see one man’s loss is another man’s gain there’s no great loss without some gain …   Proverbs new dictionary

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• Gain — Gain, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gained} (g[=a]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Gaining}.] [From gain, n. but. prob. influenced by F. gagner to earn, gain, OF. gaaignier to cultivate, OHG. weidin[=o]n, weidinen to pasture, hunt, fr. weida pasturage, G. weide,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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• Loss of chance in English law — refers to a particular problem of causation, which arises in tort and contract. The law is invited to assess hypothetical outcomes, either affecting the claimant or a third party, where the defendant s breach of contract or of the duty of care… …   Wikipedia