[Grammar] Rock paper scissors

[[FAF]dutchnian]

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?

 

[Rover_KE]

[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?

Please take careful note of my corrections.

 

[Tdol]

Rock beats scissors. Rock doesn't win anything from scissors; it just wins.

 

[Skrej]

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'.