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Prevention is better than cure
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
measure twice
cut onceI 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 once
Cutoncetwice
Measure again
Cut another time
It is what it is.
If it aint broke, don’t fix it
If it doesn’t work, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
Upvoted because it is true by design.
mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
Birds of a feather flock together
Nothing is ever so bad it can’t get worse.
Probably not a common saying, but it’s my saying. And it has proven true time and again.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
all cops are bastards
Whoever said it was easier to destroy than to create never tried collecting their feces in jars for nine months.
“A stitch in time saves nine”
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”.
B*tc#es ain’t s#!t but h0es and tr!cks
