| 单词 | never put off until tomorrow what you can do today |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnever put off until tomorrow what you can do today P1. never put off until tomorrow what you can do today and variants: used to discourage procrastination. Later also in never do today what you can put off until tomorrow and variants: used humorously to encourage procrastination. ΚΠ c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Melibeus (Hengwrt) (2003) §825 The goodnesse þt thow maist do this day, do it..ne delaye it nat til tomorwe. 1616 T. Draxe Bibliotheca Scholastica 42/1 Deferre not vntill to morrow, if thou canst do it to day. 1633 J. Howell Let. 5 Sept. in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ (1650) II. ii. 29 The other would oft-times speak of himself, It shall never be said of me that I will defer till to morrow what I can do to day. 1730 J. Browne Lucubrations Sallmanazor Histrum 180 How happy would it have been..if they..had never put off till the morrow, what they might have with Honour and good Sense done on the present day. 1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 26 Dec. in Lett. to Son (1774) I. 533 No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 1857 Spectator 12 Sept. 952/1 His own principle was never to do today what you can put off till tomorrow. (Laughter.) 1901 Jrnl. Switchmen's Union N. Amer. Nov. 643/2 Don't put off until tomorrow what should be done today. 1921 Pacific Coast Jrnl. Nursing Mar. 152/1 Procrastination, the mañana habit, where we never do today what can be put off until tomorrow. 1995 Times 7 June 19/6 My philosophy has always been never to put off until tomorrow what I can put off until the day after. 2014 Sun (Nexis) 8 Feb. 28 My top tip for mums at home is to not put off until tomorrow what you can do today. < as lemmas |
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