单词 | more haste, less speed |
释义 | > as lemmasmore haste, less speed a. In various proverbs and proverbial sayings indicating that progress is best made by not rushing or hurrying. Frequently in more haste, less speed and variants. ΚΠ c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Melibeus (Hengwrt) (2003) §88 The prouerbe seith..in wikked haste is no profit. a1525 (a1500) Sc. Troy Bk. (Douce) l. 1682 in C. Horstmann Barbour's Legendensammlung (1882) II. 275 Of fule haist cummis no speid. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. ii. sig. Aiiiv The more haste the lesse spede. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. ii. sig. Aiii Haste maketh waste. c1576 T. Whythorne Autobiogr. (1961) 89 Wee do see sum tyms þat þei who do wed and marry in hast hav enoh afterward for to repent þem. 1599 H. Porter Two Angry Women of Abingdon l. 875 There's no hast to hang true men. 1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia i. 35 Acts done in hast, by leasure are repented. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Aa 195 As if Londoners..aim more at dispatch than Justice, and to make quick Riddance (though no hast to hang true men), acquit half, and condemn half. 1698 J. Kirkwood Plea before Kirk 13 Fools haste is no speed. 1717 D. Turner Syphilis 101 The Patient had best take care he verify not an old Proverb, More Haste, worse Speed. 1791 Universal Asylum & Columbian Mag. July 14 Haste often makes waste. Some lose more by their precipitancy. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xiv. 323 The more haste was emphatically not the better speed. 1869 W. C. Hazlitt Eng. Prov. & Phr. 153 Haste trips up its own heels. 1883 H. P. Spofford in Harper's Mag. Mar. 573/1 She married him in all haste—to repent in all leisure. 1897 E. Phillpotts Lying Prophets 346 [Cornish phrase] More haste, more let. 1923 Walther League Messenger Feb. 292/2 In more than one of these Iowa and Paris weddings, it may be a case of ‘Marry in haste, repent in leisure.’ 1985 R. R. Irvine Ratings are Murder v. 44 ‘Haste makes waste,’ Kraut reminded his prop crew. ‘Let's not work ourselves out of a job.’ 2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 281 Now I'll have to use twice as much proper stuff to get rid of the vile pongo. More haste, less speed, as Nana Vincent used to say. < as lemmas |
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