2016年3月31日 · "Measure twice, cut once" is the closest English equivalent, with the same meaning.

2022年1月28日 · Similarly, the carpentry idiom 'Measure twice, cut once' has a similar meaning. Input data must be checked before execution, and a single erroneous measurement cannot be demonstrated as True or False without a check.

2014年7月14日 · I thought it had its origins in tailoring as well, or carpentry, where if you cut too close to the line you've drawn you leave no margin for error--as in measure twice, cut once. Cut too close to the line and your work is wasted. Wiktionary defines the phrase slightly more broadly than working against time, but offers no etymology:

2017年5月9日 · The peasant who sets out for that purpose [to collect fuel] of a winter's morning from his house in the valley, begins by ascending some neighboring mountain, and having there made up the pieces he has cut into the form of a rude sledge, and secured them together properly on the brink of the declivity, he takes his station on the load, so that ...

I don't chew my cabbage twice - Response when someone asks you to repeat what you just said. This phrase is probably a combination of: I don't chew my baccer (tobacco) twice and I don't boil my cabbage twice. I don't boil my cabbage twice. 1888. "In the country, especially in the country towns of Pennsylvania, this is a very common expression ...

2022年3月9日 · DARE is the Dictionary of American Regional English (1985), and as Whiting indicates, it has entries for both "chew one's cabbage twice (Also boil one's cabbage twice)," meaning "To repeat oneself," and "to chew one's tobacco more than once and varr," meaning "To repeat what one has said."

2018年2月6日 · As you say, "Twice Upon a Time" is the title of the Doctor Who 2017 Christmas Special. It's playing with the standard expression "Once upon a time," traditionally used to introduce fairy stories and the like. There is normally only one eponymous doctor in the show. This one features two. See this promotional link.

2015年8月29日 · However, in this case you may argue that 'many' is better suited to accompany queuing for a cup of coffee than 'often', where as 'once' and 'twice' definitely sound more poetic together in the context, than do 'one' and 'twice'. Thus you would be fine to write it, as you have in the title: Queuing twice for a cup of coffee is once too many.

2014年5月21日 · Once/twice/thrice vs one/two/three times "2 times", "twice" and "2X", when to use which and why? two times or twice. Examples: It has happened two times before. - Replace with "twice" 24 is two times as large as 12. - Replace with "twice" It only happened the last two times. - "twice" sounds wrong, don't replace

Not an expression. But there is a quote that goes something like: "Do something once and it's an accident. Twice, a coincidence. If you do it a third time, then it's a natural law". Google also points to what appears to be an adaptation by Paulo Coelho of your French expression: "Everything that