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1 arriving early can't beat coming at the right time

2 perfect timing

1 lit. Sow melon and you get melon, sow beans and you get beans (idiom); fig. As you sow, so shall you reap.

2 One must live with the consequences of one's actions.

3 You've made your bed, now must lie on it.

1 lit. can pick it up or put it down (idiom)

2 fig. to take what comes

3 to meet gains or losses with equanimity

1 Easy come, easy go. (idiom)

1 to get whatever one wants

2 to have everything going one's way

1 to be considered as outstanding or special

2 to be reckoned with

3 notable

1 faulted at every turn (idiom); can't get anything right

1 satisfied just to get through (idiom); to muddle through

2 without high ambitions, but getting by

1 exactly what one would wish

2 to find one's niche

1 vesting period (in finance)

1 Windhoek, capital of Namibia

1 fully content with one's achievements (idiom)

2 complacent

1 to score a try (sports)

2 to score a touchdown

1 Dêrong county (Tibetan: sde rong rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州[Gān zī Zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)

1 Rhode Island, US state

2 Rhodes, an island of Greece

1 really good

2 excellent

1 guilty and deserves to be punished (idiom); entirely appropriate chastisement

2 the punishment fits the crime

1 to deserve what one gets (punishment, mishap etc) (idiom)

1 to lose what one has just obtained (idiom)

1 work more and get more