the second mouse gets the cheese

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谚语
  1. Others reap the advantages after a first mover absorbs the loss of a first-mover disadvantage.
    — A product recall later sent his Livonia, Mich., company into bankruptcy. Its remains were sold to a Fargo businessman who moved the business there and later sold it to DaimlerChrysler, just as California's first electric car mandates were looming. "We were the story of how the second mouse gets the cheese," Mr. [Dan] Sturges says.

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Referring to a mousetrap with cheese as bait: after a mouse is captured in it, another mouse is able to take the cheese.
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