EXPRESSIONS
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bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"
CATEGORY
Proverb
QUOTE
"A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing"
-Bret
Harte, US author (1836-1902).
MEANING
The saying "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" means that it is better to be content with something you are sure to receive than to lose it by trying to get something better that you may perhaps never obtain.
The disenchanted remark made by Bret Harte mocks this well known saying by transfering an adage concerned with possession to one concerned with freedom.
It points
out and denounces at the same time the subjectivity of every
proverb.
SIMILAR EXPRESSIONS IN FRENCH:
Un tiens vaut mieux que deux tu l'auras.
SIMILAR EXPRESSIONS IN SPANISH
FOLLOW-UP
Here are two other expressions with the word "bird" :
"to give the bird"
"an early bird"
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and then some
CATEGORY
adverbial expression
QUOTE
"All that and then some" - title of a shopping site on the internet
All that Jazz, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Dizzie Gilespie, Charlie Parker, all the others, and then some. - "rwjazz39
It costs me a week's salary and then some.
MEANING
"and then some" means the same as "and a lot more" or "and considerably more in addition".
SIMILAR EXPRESSIONS IN FRENCH:
... et encore bien plus!
FOLLOW-UP
Here is another expression beginning with "AND" :
And Now for Something Completely Different
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