one man's loss is another man's gain
sayingDefinition
› said when someone gets an advantage from someone else's bad luckBalance and imbalance
(Definition of one man's loss is another man's gain from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- accord with sth phrasal verb
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