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单词 a watched pot never boils
释义
a watched pot never boils
[old-fashioned]
said to mean that if you wait and watch anxiously to see something happen, it will seem to take a very long time, or it will not happen at all
This strategy is doomed from the start because it is far too public: a watched pot never boils.
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