📚 One can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): One cannot accomplish something without adverse effects elsewhere. ❗️ Examples: 1. Just as surely as you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, you can't build a fairer society without challenging wealth and power. 2. However, as Lenin said, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. 3. Robespierre was dead right, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, however I have noticed that politicians can never improve the world without killing a fair amount of the inhabitants which is what Robespierre had just done. 4. He used to say ‘I put my money on Stalin,’ and dismissed Stalin's mass murder with the quip, ‘you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.’ 5. Those arguing that this is just how modern warfare is waged, and that ‘you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs ’, should note that it is only the US that behaves like this. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic