100 English words for 'Sometimes you win and sometimes you are defeated; everybody has successes and failures.'

sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you

you win some, you lose some

snatch victory from the jaws of defeat

make-or-break

live by the sword, die by the sword

discomfited

defeated

I got mine

have the last laugh

loss

sleeveless

vain

bootless

nothing succeeds like success

fruitless

futile

succeeder

sink or swim

take a dive

nonsuccess

cough up

winlessness

take the count

loser

pwn

spoiler

go nowhere

game over

come off

success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone

defeatism

work out

flat out

twilight

go wrong

unsuccessful person

failure

nonstarter

when one's ship comes in

sweet smell of success

every man is the architect of his own fortune

subdual

foil

a miss is as good as a mile

prosperous

whitewash

nonperseverance

defeatedness

winning

fall

take it on the chin

unfavorableness

scalp

epic fail

ace out

unfavourableness

cooked

succedent

win back

crownlessness

unlikely

uncompetitiveness

revenge

easy come, easy go

some people have all the luck

unbeatens

you're only as good as your last shift

what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts

corncob

checkmate

unsuccessful

law of diminishing returns

even chance

backfire

undefeated

washout

stick a fork in something

old college try

undoing

no-win

winning streak

carnage

strike gold

in vain

pride comes before a fall

failingness

when you're hot, you're hot

winner

hit the skids

go strong

beat

no-win situation

mis-

yielding

carry

everything one touches turns to gold

surrender

giving up