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cut onceMeasure once
Cutoncetwice
Measure again
Cut another timeI am an ardent believer in it, given how many times it has saved our assets at work, often to the point of annoying people. That said, I usually end up being right for insisting on more time and/or data, so it’s all good.
However, my spoonerific brain always gets this twisted to “measure once, cut twice”.
I unknowingly wrote this once in a comment about asking for more metrics during a design review.
My colleague (the author of said design document) replied with the relevant metrics and a comment saying “measure never, cut forever”. :D
measure never, cut forever
Im stealing that xD that’s a good one
Indeed it is. :-)
Also, your comment made me realise that I mistyped asses in my original comment!
Going to leave it there for the sweet sweet irony. :D
Measure three times, cut zero times
taps head
hmm. I prefer to live by “I’ve cut it three times and it’s still too short”
“A stitch in time saves nine”
all cops are bastards
I’m in London. What is this cop that you speak of?
All of them? Not a single one isn’t a bastard?
Whoever said it was easier to destroy than to create never tried collecting their feces in jars for nine months.
Birds of a feather flock together
Imagine a bunch of random and different birds in one flock…
badass burd gang found family.
how come DreamWorks hasn’t made that movie already
“Birds if a feather” coming soon
The chaos lol
If it aint broke, don’t fix it
I’m not fixing it, I’m upgrading it.
Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, trash it, change it, mail, upgrade it.
Prevention is better than cure
too much prevention and maybe the cure is better.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
This saying doesn’t work in most countries
All those things about your mom are true.
Most have been true at some point. They all (most) have a reference to something that once made perfect sense.
For example: Calling the kettle black. Most kettles were black at one era in time. Now they can be different colors.
But here are some [more] modern ones:
‘A 90s one: all that and a bag of chips’ Since many people would get a free bag of chips with their meal.
‘The internet is dead’ said when we get the nostalgic shock of an era no longer the golden age of internet. And it is true, many things that were great about old internet are now gone or modernized into a streamlined mess of paywalls and adblock-blockers.
They are called idioms in a sense because some of us can’t help but feel uneducated when we cannot figure out what they mean or why that phrase would come to mean what it does. But it sure does make the past a bit more interesting.
Isn’t the saying “Pot calling the kettle black”? I’m also not sure about the “all that and a bag of chips” – it doesn’t refer to getting free things, it means something similar to “the bee’s knees”.
‘They are called idioms in a sense because some of us can’t help but feel uneducated when we cannot figure out what they mean or why that phrase would come to mean what it does.’
What? That is not why they are called idioms.
You also misused or misunderstood two of the idioms you used, and also listed the internet one, which isn’t an idiom.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
ArE
haste does, indeed, make waste.
It is what it is.
The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.
Crap in crap out
