there's a sucker born every minute

English

Alternative forms

• a sucker is born every minute

Proverb

there's a sucker born every minute

1. (US, slang) There will always be a great number of fools in the world who can be easily swindled.

   Synonym: there's one born every minute

Translations

Translations

• Portuguese: nasce um otário a cada minuto (literally “a sucker is born at every minute”)
• Russian: дурако́в не се́ют, не жнут — са́ми родя́тся (durakóv ne séjut, ne žnut — sámi rodjátsja, literally “fools are not sown or reaped – they come into the world themselves”); лох - не мамонт, лох не вымрет (lox - ne mamont, lox ne vymret)

See also

• a fool and his money are soon parted
• nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people