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What does beggars can't be choosers mean?

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Proverb
  1. When in need of help, one cannot dictate how that help is given; when one's situation requires one to beg, one cannot complain about the insufficient or substandard gifts that one receives.
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Either it was a case of beggars can't be choosers or the interview panel had not found me too old, white, middle class and soft-hearted after all.
I've had more glowing reviews, but beggars can't be choosers.
I'm a bit miffed about the album category, but beggars can't be choosers and I am a beggar.
Beggars can't be choosers, but ironically this is the situation in which the second-richest club, in what is now the most lucrative league in the world, find themselves.
This is going to be a little messier than I like, but beggars can't be choosers.

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