if you can’t beat ’em join ’em By Cecilia Brabin | January 23, 2009 if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em! something you try to resist doing but in the end cannot I tried for a long time to avoid the internet, but it is impossible so I gave in, if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em! Posted in Word of the Day and tagged General idioms, I, Saying of the week