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all is fish that comes to the net

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Anything that comes along is accepted and turned to advantage: "I don't know that she cares for one more than the other. There are a couple of young Air Force chaps too. I fancy all's fish that comes to her net at present" (Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936). First recorded c. 1520, the proverb is sometimes applied to a particular person by substituting my, his, her, and so on for the, as in this example.

Proverb expressing similar meaning: all is grist that comes to the mill.

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