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In It

Meaning

(slang) In trouble.

(slang) Getting on successfully, especially in a game.

(informal) Taking part in something, such as a lottery.

Having an expected payout or reward.
So you're taking all our trash to the dump, for free? I don't understand. What's in it for you?

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The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be. Jerome

Hate the world and all that is in it. Hate all peace that comes from the flesh. Renounce this life, so that you may be alive to God. Anthony the Great

The emptiness that remains in the soul when there is no God in it cannot be filled by the whole world. Nikolaj Velimirovic

Cover up the pot, there's an eel in it. Dutch Proverb

Whoever eats a pancake never counts the holes in it. Hindi Proverb

The world is a pot, man but a spoon in it. Armenian Proverb

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