if you can,t beat,em , join,em English, PROVERBS, with meanings

proverb 

32. if you can,t beat,em , join,em

meaning 

when you try to change someone,s behavior and its doesn,t work , you might have to change instead . for example ,if you are trying to get your classmatches to focus on studing but they want to party , may be you should just party with them.