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"Victory at the cost of cheating is like ashes in ones mouth"

If something turns to ashes in one's mouth, it has become a bitter disappointment because it is devoid of true substance and lasting satisfaction. (The allusion is to Dead Sea fruit.)

Dead Sea fruit; a name for a legendary fruit, of attractive appearance, which dissolved into smoke and ashes when held (also called apple of Sodom); figuratively, a hollow disappointing thing, perhaps because it was regarded as devoid of life or movement.

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