[Grammar] Rock paper scissors

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Hi, my friend is telling me that "rock wins from scissors" and ect is correct, but i keep telling him its "rock beats scissorcs" ect, which one is correct?
 

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[STRIKE]Hi,[/STRIKE] My friend is telling me that "rock wins from scissors" [STRIKE]and ect[/STRIKE] etc is correct, but I keep telling him it's "rock beats scissors" etc. Which one is correct?
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Rock beats scissors. Rock doesn't win anything from scissors; it just wins.
 

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You'll sometimes hear variations such as 'rock crushes scissors' or 'rock dulls scissors'. (Ignoring that a whetstone is a rock and it actually sharpens them).

Similarly 'paper covers rock' and 'scissors cuts paper'.
 
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