what a neighbour gets is not lost
- what a neighbour gets is not lost
Often with friend instead of neighbour.
1567 L. WAGER Mary Magdalene D4v There is nothyng lost that is done for such a friende.
1721 J. KELLY Scottish Proverbs 198 It is no tint [not lost], a Friend gets.
1891 J. L. KIPLING Beast & Man viii. The public at large have reaped much of the crop sown by Government for its own army, but, as the Scottish saying has it, ‘What a neighbour gets is not lost.’
1933 N. GORDON Shakespeare Murders xv. 237 ‘Every one is naturally interested in the whereabouts of a million pounds, even if it does not belong to oneself. It isn’t lost, what a friend gets.’ ‘You mean that you can always borrow from him?’ ‘I meant rather that one delights in his good fortune.’
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