Meaning of use it or lose it | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Skills or knowledge that are seldom applied are likely to be lost with time.
2. Property and privileges will be lost if they are not utilized.
3. One's physical fitness will gradually decline if one does not exercise regularly.

Examples

“Any piece of curriculum, devoid of an opportunity to wield it, suffers the same fate as unutilized Spanish instruction. The time-tested colloquialism is accurate: use it or lose it.”

“The legal rationale was simple: in much of the west, water rights operate under the "use it or lose it" principle. If you don't use the water, others had the right to appropriate it and use it themselves.”

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