No good deed goes unpunished
A Pentagon spokesperson said Friday it had been in communication with SpaceX over the funding of the Starlink satellite communication product.
“No good deed goes unpunished,” Musk said in response to a follower who replied to his tweet Saturday. “Even so, we should still do good deeds.”
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Does the “No good deed goes unpunished” mean that doing good deeds has some negative consequences?
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Musk is being very bitterly sarcastic. He implies that he does good deeds but every one lands him in a lawsuit in court.
- Musk is being very bitterly sarcastic.
- He implies that he does good deeds but every one lands him in a lawsuit in court.
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Musk is being very bitterly sarcastic. He implies that he does good deeds but every one lands him in a lawsuit in court.
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This is a fixed saying used when you've done something nice for someone, but they end up finding fault with what you've done. It's a deliberate deformation of "All good deeds are rewarded".
It's similar to "to bite the hand that feeds you", as when you extend your hand to give food to a dog, and the dog bite
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