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. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers |
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