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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Look Before You Leap Consider well before you act. "Melius est cavere semper, quam patiri semel. " "And look before you ere you leap, For, as you sow, you're like to reap." Butler: Hudibras, canto ii. part ii. 502. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Better look before you leap! ("Mama He's Crazy"; performing artist: The Judds) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Look Before You Leap (1954) | |
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Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
E. P. Whipple | Nothing, says Goethe, is so terrible as activity without insight. -- Look before you leap is a maxim for the world. |
Tusser | Look before you leap; see before you go. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
look before you leap | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ne ugorj a vaksötétbe, gondold meg először a dolgot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ooklay eforebay youay eaplay pense duas vezes antes de agir. (various references) nu te pripi (draw it mild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Familiar 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Bibliography |
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