Helen Nguyen
2021-03-06 12:03
Stitch in Time Saves Nine sentence spoken language
Said to mean that if you act or solve problems immediately, it will save a lot of extra work later.
I think it's better to bring your car to the shop while it’s still running as a stitch in time saves nine
A stitch in time saves nine, so we need to deal with climate change before it gets worse.
To deal with a number of different things at the same time
To handle one's business problems related to finance or property
To use a specific name for someone
To understand, find out or figure out a solution for something
To easily defeat, finish, or deal with someone or something.
The 'stitch in time' phrase has the implications of the prompt sewing up of a small hole or tear in a piece of material, so saving the need for more stitching at a later date when the hole has become larger. Clearly the first users of this expression were referring to saving nine stitches.
This notion has been current in English for a very long time and is first recorded in Thomas Fuller's Gnomologia: A Collection of the Proverbs, Maxims and Adages That Inspired Benjamin Franklin and Poor Richard's Almanack, 1732:
"A Stitch in Time May save nine."
As far as is known, the first person to state unambiguously that 'a stitch in time saves nine', rather than Fuller's less confident 'may save nine', was the English astronomer Francis Baily, in his Journal, written in 1797 and published in 1856 by Augustus De Morgan:
"After a little while we acquired a method of keeping her [a boat] in the middle of the stream, by watching the moment she began to vary, and thereby verifying the vulgar proverb, '"A stitch in time saves nine."
(Source: phrase.org.uk)
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