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								So don't even try to play the woulda-shoulda-coulda. "People danced and cheered on the street." Ann Althouse 2006 
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								KING: Vanessa, is there at all a woulda-shoulda-coulda about it? 
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								Never waste time playing the woulda-shoulda-coulda game, a wise man once told me. chron.com Chronicle 2010 
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								Instead of the woulda-shoulda-coulda and what-if attitudes, we should be visioning and daydreaming about what we are going to do, what we can do and what we will do to turn dreams into realities. Vail Daily - Top Stories Michael Norton Vail 2010 
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								Never waste time playing the woulda-shoulda-coulda game, a wise man once told me. 
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								Never waste time playing the woulda-shoulda-coulda game, a wise man once told me. 
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								Instead of the woulda-shoulda-coulda and what-if attitudes, we should be visioning and daydreaming about what we are going to do, what we can do and what we will do to turn dreams into realities. Vail Daily - Top Stories Michael Norton Vail 2010 
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								Instead of the woulda-shoulda-coulda and what-if attitudes, we should be visioning and daydreaming about what we are going to do, what we can do and what we will do to turn dreams into realities. Vail Daily - Top Stories Michael Norton Vail 2010 
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								Instead of the woulda-shoulda-coulda and what-if attitudes, we should be visioning and daydreaming about what we are going to do, what we can do and what we will do to turn dreams into realities. Vail Daily - Top Stories Michael Norton Vail 2010 
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								Never waste time playing the woulda-shoulda-coulda game, a wise man once told me. 
ramsler commented on the word woulda-shoulda-coulda
An expression of regret over courses of action not taken that would have resulted in a very beneficial outcome--such as investing in a stock that shot up in value, or deciding to join a political campaign of a person who seemed a long-shot but won an election by a landslide, etc. "I woulda-shoulda-coulda become rich if I'd bought in on that deal."
June 21, 2009