you can't keep a good man down
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.12 in modern English
42
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
7
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""Isn't it perfectly splendid, Mr. Pepper, to think that Archie's genius has at last been recognized? How quiet he kept it. I had no idea that Mr. Brackett was even interested in his work. I wonder how he heard of it?" "Oh, these things get about," I said. "You can't keep a good man down.""
- "You can't keep a good man down. Like the corpse in The Trouble with Harry who just won't stay buried, Alfred Hitchcock keeps popping out of his grave to terrify and delight new audiences."
- "He cut a sorry figure after the thumping by England, but you can't keep a good man down. That familiar mix of manic energy and piratical lunacy enabled the totemic Irishman to reassert his status as a world-class performer."
- "Dunlop suffered a coronary arrest—his heart stopped for almost six minutes. But even at 85, you can't keep a good man down, and he was able to recover."