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le ngoc qui
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Please help me
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Hi everyone!
please help me with this. I �m looking for an idiom implying that if a person doesn �t know how to prepare for his future use (ex: saving money for future se), he will be unhappy (ex: short of money) soon.
Thank you in advance
Qui Le |
22 Jan 2010
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Carla Horne
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Hi,
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Don �t count your chickens before they hatch. (Don �t assume that you will have something)
A stitch in time saves nine. (If you work now, you will not have to do more work later. This
could also be applied to having to work for money either now
or having to work much harder later for money.)
I can �t think of any more now.
Carla
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22 Jan 2010
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libertybelle
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And, of course, �sop �s fable of the Ant and the Cricket:
During the wintertime, an ant was living off the grain that he had stored
up for himself during the summer. The cricket came to the ant and asked
him to share some of his grain. The ant said to the cricket, �And what
were you doing all summer long, since you weren �t gathering grain to eat? �
The cricket replied, �Because I was busy singing I didn �t have time for
the harvest. � The ant laughed at the cricket �s reply, and hid his heaps
of grain deeper in the ground. �Since you sang like a fool in the summer, �
said the ant, �you better be prepared to dance the winter away! �
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22 Jan 2010
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yanogator
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I �ve always heard it as a grasshopper, rather than a cricket.
Bruce |
23 Jan 2010
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le ngoc qui
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Thank you for your enthusiastic help
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24 Jan 2010
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