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count on

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1. count on - Verb

2. count on - Phrase

Meaning

judge to be probable

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I can count on one hand how many people I trust. Frances Bean Cobain

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. Robert A. Heinlein

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman. Tallulah Bankhead

One cannot count on riches. Somali Proverb

Whoever seeds fava beans without using fertilizer, shouldn't count on having much to eat. Sicilian Proverb

In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone. Latin Proverb

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