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you can't take it with you en · X

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  1. It is not possible to take one's material wealth or possessions to whatever world may await one after death.
    • Dealers also quietly bought gold fillings from morticians, proving that you can't take it with you. 1980 January 14, “Business: The Great Sell-Off”, in Time:
    • You can't take it with you, of course, but your intended heirs may not be able to take it with them, either, if you do not explicitly state through a will who is supposed to get what. 2007 August 3, Conrad de Aenlle, “All the right (and wrong) moves”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Jul 2011:
    • "The clause which—at my death—makes you sole owner of the whole concession. You see—the odds were scarcely even, were they? It wasn't likely anything would happen to you!" . . . "What's it matter to you now?" Trent said, with unintentional brutality. "You can't take it with you." 1900, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 6, in A Millionaire of Yesterday: