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I would just like to ask if anyone could give me any English proverbs which mean: "one may escape from someone but it isn't for forever, early or late he/ she will be caught"?

Context: imagine that one of my friends used to do bad things against me, but hidden, behind me, and in the end he was caught and everything had been proved.

Best Answer

There are a few ways to express what you're looking for, though I am not aware of an idiom that covers the entire meaning of your sentence.

What I commonly hear is:

  • You may escape now, but sooner or later/in the end/eventually/inevitably you will be caught.
  • Don't bother trying to escape, being caught is inevitable.
  • Why would you try to escape? It's better to just bow to the inevitable.

The phrases sooner or later, in the end, eventually express that at some point in the future, the person will be caught anyway. Inevitably and inevitable have a similar meaning, but these words also stress the fact that being caught cannot be avoided.

The idiom bow to the inevitable means that the person stops resisting and gives in, since he sees that whatever it is he is avoiding, actually cannot be avoided so it is best to just go through with it. You could probably rephrase this idiom to something along the lines of give in/give up.

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