The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.
Golf made me feel like a loser. So I dismissed it.
There's a particularly British wariness of appearing to try too hard. It's somehow distasteful. Everything should come to us seamlessly and, if you have to work at it, you're somehow a loser.
Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.
Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.
Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
All the world loves a good loser.
It's the good loser who finally loses out.
Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
In anything, I always give my all. I'm not a good loser.
I love a good loser.
You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.
The John McCain tactic of praising Obama as a great American and great senator 'with whom I disagree' is a loser. You've got to call him out as what he is - a fraud and a disaster.
Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
On the market, all is harmony. But as soon as intervention appears and is established, conflict is created, for each may participate in a scramble to be a net gainer rather than a net loser - to be part of the invading team instead of one of the victims.