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Newt Heilscher

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

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in evidence

[in evidence] {adj. phr.} Easily seen; noticeable. * /The little boy's measles were very much in evidence./ * /The tulips were blooming; spring was in evidence./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[evidence] See: [IN EVIDENCE]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[in the cards] also [on the cards] {adj. phr.}, {informal} To be expected; likely to happen; foreseeable; predictable. * /It was in the cards for the son to succeed his […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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