if you can't beat them, join them , auch: if you can't beat 'em, join 'em

"They looked at Schwab and said if you can't beat them join them."

If you can't beat them join them!

As it won more and more devotees some country dance teachers seem to have calculated, if you can't beat them join them.

Possible Coca Cola promotion in front of IGA express "if you can't beat em join em".

Conceding that if you can't beat them join them, the Music Festival of the Hamptons decided last year to make the Long Island Rail Road train whistle that sounded from tracks near its Bridgehampton site part of the show.

It was hilarious, something I had never experienced before, so the old saying was 'If you can't beat them join them' so we tommies joined in but only to get extra food, you can't live on cigarettes so food was uppermost.

For companies like PPR and LVMH, who have spent the past few years building stores across China, the shift toward overseas spending is forcing them to adapt their strategy in China to the tune of: if you can't beat them join them.