wrestle with a pig

Meaning: (informal,idiomatic)To engage in a struggle with an opponent that benefits from the struggle even without winning it.1946, Richard Percival Calhoon,Moving ahead on your job, McGraw-Hill:"And when you begin refuting one another's reasons, fussing back and forth, you generally do what a nationally known industrial relations authority warns you against: you wallow in the mud with the pig. He says, 'Never wallow in the mud with a pig, because the pig likes it.' That is exactly what he wants, because you are on his home ground. He can think of arguments as well as you can, so where do you come out?"1950,Time, volume56:"'I learned long ago never towrestle with a pig,' Ching likes to say, 'You get dirty and besides the pig likes it.'"1957,Barney Glazer's Column,TheLorisSentinel, Feb 13, p4."Whenever a boisterous and argumentative person cries to draw you into a public discussion or a wrangle, just remember this bit of advice. "Don'twrestle with a pig. You'll get dirty which is exactly what the pig likes."2002,Dinesh D'Souza,Letters to a Young Conservative,page23:"While I was at the Dartmouth Review, we used to tell the deans that taking on our campus paper was likewrestling with a pig.Not only did it get everyone dirty, but the pig liked it!"

Examples:

EN: Never wrestle with a pig, Ms. Hensen, you'll both get dirty, only the pig likes it!
ES: Nunca peléese con un cerdo, Señorita Henson. Los dos se puestos sucio adelante esa ocasión.
EN: "Never wrestle with a pig."
ES: "Nunca luches con un cerdo".
EN: Don't wrestle with a pig, or you'll get dirty.
ES: No luche contra un cerdo o se manchará.
EN: If you wrestle with a pig you gonna get muddy.
ES: Si luchas con un cerdo te enlodas.
EN: See, here's the thing that I did learn, though, that you don't wrestle with a pig.
ES: Mira, esto es lo que sí aprendí: no se lucha con un cerdo.
EN: Now, you don't wrestle with a pig.
ES: Ahora bien, no se lucha con un cerdo.
EN: But he did cite a saying attributed to the playwright George Bernard Shaw: 'I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig.
HI: इस ट्वीट में फडणवीस ने प्रसिद्ध नाटककार जॉर्ज बर्नार्ड शॉ को उद्धृत करते हुए लिखा, ' मैंने बहुत समय पहले सीखा था कि कभी किसी सूअर से नहीं लड़ो।
EN: I believe the quote, "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig.
HI: जिसका अनुवाद है, 'मैनें बहुत पहले सीखा था, कभी सुअर से मत लड़ो।
EN: p.s., 'I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig.
HI: जिसका अनुवाद है, 'मैनें बहुत पहले सीखा था, कभी सुअर से मत लड़ो।
EN: The actual quote is: "I learned a long time ago, never wrestle with a pig.
HI: जिसका अनुवाद है, 'मैनें बहुत पहले सीखा था, कभी सुअर से मत लड़ो।
HI: इसका अनुवाद है, 'आज का विचार, मैंने बहुत समय पहले सीखा था, कभी सुअर से लड़ाई मत करो।
EN: Meanwhile, Fadnavis responded with a quote from author George Bernard Shaw saying, "I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig.
HI: इस ट्वीट में फडणवीस ने प्रसिद्ध नाटककार जॉर्ज बर्नार्ड शॉ को उद्धृत करते हुए लिखा, ' मैंने बहुत समय पहले सीखा था कि कभी किसी सूअर से नहीं लड़ो।
EN: Irish polemicist George Bernard Shaw wrote, "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig.
HI: इस ट्वीट में फडणवीस ने प्रसिद्ध नाटककार जॉर्ज बर्नार्ड शॉ को उद्धृत करते हुए लिखा, ' मैंने बहुत समय पहले सीखा था कि कभी किसी सूअर से नहीं लड़ो।
EN: Famous quotes Don't ever wrestle with a pig.
HI: लटक मत जना कभी किसी कुंडी से जकड़ कर
EN: She would use the quote "I learned a long time ago, never to wrestle with a pig.
HI: जिसका अनुवाद है, 'मैनें बहुत पहले सीखा था, कभी सुअर से मत लड़ो।
EN: There was a saying, don't wrestle with a pig in the mud -- you get dirty.... and the pig likes it.
HI: वो बोली- अब और मत तड़पाओ.. चूत में खुजली जोर से हो रही है.. इसे चोद डालो प्लीज।

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