advantageousness
ad·van·ta·geous
A0102900 (ăd′văn-tā′jəs, -vən-)Advantageousness
See Also: COST
- Beneficial … like water to a garden —Anon
- Benefits, like bread, soon become stale —Caroline Forne
- Benefits, like flowers, please most when they are fresh —George Herbert
- Free [things] … free as a well to get into, but like a rat trap, not exactly free to get out of —Josh Billings
Billings wrote in a phonetic dialect. Here’s the dialect version of the above: “I hav found a grate menny things in this wurld that was free —free az a well tew git into, but like a rat trap, not ekzackly free tu git out ov.”
- A good deal … like trading an apple for an orchard —Anon
The opposite of this is a German proverb: “Like trading the hen for the egg.”
- Like parenthood, you bid [at an auction,] then see what you’ve got —John Ciardi
- Privileges she could list as a prisoner might count out the days of his sentence —Margaret Sutherland
| Noun | 1. | advantageousness - the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome |