lose

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  • (you) win a few, (you) lose a few
  • a tale never loses in the telling
  • blow lunch
  • blow one’s doughnuts
  • blow one’s lunch
  • by a short head
  • catch not at the shadow and lose the substance
  • fall out of favor
  • get one's bearings
  • give/lose ground
  • have all one's buttons
  • heads I win, tails you lose
  • heads or tails
  • it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye
  • keep (one's) cool
  • keep (one's) temper
  • keep one's cool
  • keep one's head
  • keep track
  • keep/lose track
  • keep/lose your cool
  • keep/lose your temper
  • Lend your money and lose your friend
  • Lend your money and lose your friend.
  • lose (one's) appetite
  • lose (one's) bearings
  • lose (one's) bottle
  • lose (one's) buttons
  • lose (one's) cherry
  • lose (one's) cool
  • lose (one's) doughnuts
  • lose (one's) edge
  • lose (one's) faith (in something or someone)
  • lose (one's) footing
  • lose (one's) grip on (someone or something)
  • lose (one's) head
  • lose (one's) head over (something)
  • lose (one's) heart to (someone)
  • lose (one's) hold on (someone or something)
  • lose (one's) hold over (someone or something)
  • lose (one's) life
  • lose (one's) lunch
  • lose (one's) marbles
  • lose (one's) mind
  • lose (one's) mojo
  • lose (one's) nerve
  • lose (one's) patience (with someone)
  • lose (one's) rag
  • lose (one's) shirt
  • lose (one's) spirit
  • lose (one's) temper
  • lose (one's) tongue
  • lose (one's) train of thought
  • lose (one's) v-card
  • lose (one's)/the way
  • lose (some amount of) time
  • lose (someone's or something's) grip
  • lose a bundle
  • lose a packet
  • lose a step
  • lose all one’s marbles
  • lose appetite
  • lose at
  • lose at (something)
  • lose by
  • lose contact (with one)
  • lose contact with
  • lose cool
  • lose count
  • lose count (of something)
  • lose count of
  • lose face
  • lose face, to
  • lose favor
  • lose favor (with one)
  • lose ground
  • lose ground to (someone or something)
  • lose head
  • lose heart
  • lose heart to
  • lose hold on
  • lose in
  • lose it
  • lose it, to
  • lose marbles
  • lose money hand over fist
  • lose money on
  • lose money on (something)
  • lose no time (in) (doing something)
  • lose one’s cool
  • lose one’s doughnuts
  • lose one’s grip
  • lose one’s hold
  • lose one’s lunch
  • lose one’s marbles
  • lose one’s shirt
  • lose one's bearings
  • lose one's buttons
  • lose one's cool
  • lose one's grip
  • lose one's head
  • lose one's head, to
  • lose one's hear to
  • lose one's lunch
  • lose one's marbles
  • lose one's mind
  • lose one's nerve
  • lose one's shirt
  • lose one's shirt, to
  • lose one's temper
  • lose one's touch
  • lose oneself in
  • lose out
  • lose out in (something)
  • lose out on
  • lose out on (something)
  • lose out to
  • lose out to (someone or something)
  • lose patience
  • lose patience (with one)
  • lose reason
  • lose shirt
  • lose sight of
  • lose sight of (someone or something)
  • lose sight of something
  • lose sleep
  • lose sleep about (someone or something)
  • lose sleep over
  • lose sleep over (someone or something)
  • lose sleep over, to
  • lose some amount of time
  • lose somebody/something in the shuffle
  • lose temper
  • lose the battle, but win the war
  • lose the drift (of something)
  • lose the drift/thread of something
  • lose the number of (one's) mess
  • lose the plot
  • lose the thread
  • lose the use of
  • lose the use of (something)
  • lose time
  • lose to
  • lose to (someone or something)
  • lose tongue
  • lose touch
  • lose touch (with one)
  • lose touch with reality
  • lose touch with sanity
  • lose touch/contact
  • lose trace of
  • lose trace of (someone or something)
  • lose track
  • lose track of (someone or something)
  • lose track of something/someone
  • lose train of thought
  • lose your bearings
  • lose your cherry
  • lose your cool
  • lose your edge
  • lose your grip
  • lose your head
  • lose your heart
  • lose your life
  • lose your lunch
  • lose your marbles
  • lose your mind
  • lose your mojo
  • lose your rag
  • lose your shirt
  • lose your touch
  • lose your way
  • lose/waste no time
  • make a packet
  • make money hand over fist
  • make, lose, spend, etc. a packet
  • make/lose money hand over fist
  • miss out
  • no time to lose
  • not lose (any) sleep (over someone or something)
  • not lose any sleep over somebody/something
  • not lose any sleep over something
  • stand to lose
  • stand to lose (something)
  • tale never loses in the telling
  • there's no time to lose
  • use it or lose it
  • what you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts
  • Win a few, lose a few
  • win or lose
  • win some, lose some
  • win some, lose some, (you)
  • win the battle, but lose the war
  • win, lose, etc. by a short head
  • You cannot lose what you never had
  • you can't lose what you never had
  • you must lose a fly to catch a trout
  • you snooze, you lose
  • You win some, you lose some
References in periodicals archive
Folkestone & Hythe: Lab gain 6, Green gain 6, LD gain 2, C lose 10, UKIP lose 2, Ind lose 2.
Peterborough: C gain 1, LD gain 1, Green gain 1, Lab lose 1, UKIP lose 1, Lib lose 1.
CARMARTHENSHIRE NOC - No change PC gain 7, Ind lose 7.
Phil McGraw to say in milk mustache ads that "drinking milk can help you lose weight." Give away 24 convertibles in 24 days to reinforce the idea that 24 ounces (3 cups) of milk ever 24 hours melts away fat.
In this case, he will have to decrease his caloric intake to 4,625 calories per day--250 calories below his current need--to lose another pound of body fat in 10 days.
Insured disaster victims who lose their vacation homes do not have the same benefits as disaster victims who lose their principal residences.
In raw test scores, black students lose some ground relative to whites between the fall of kindergarten and the spring of 1st grade.
If identifiable groups of people gain weight differently and then lose it differently, does that mean that different approaches to weight loss/management should be designed to deal with possibly different pathways to and from O/O?
Eight weeks later, when I had managed to lose our entire investment, he changed his mind.
The study found that people who lost weight without trying had a 31% higher mortality rate than those who didn't attempt and didn't lose any weight.
Clinton has lied to us, deceived us, and then covered up his deceptions about something which, however odious, we did not need to know about and caused no one to lose a life.
How many years will I lose because of an extra 10 pounds?" You will not find the answers to such questions in The Fat of the Land.
Last month I discussed the major eating disorders and the psychological problems dancers may face by misunderstanding the proper relationship between diet and exercise when trying to lose weight.
Whether Santa is considered a person or a metaphor, I think the main point of Church's reply is that all these valued qualities--love, generosity, poetry, romance--are in danger of being lost to our children if they lose their ability to believe in Santa Claus.
"To lose all our land [to save] a small rat just doesn't make sense," Garcia says.