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Better safe than sorry
- It is better to act cautiously beforehand than to suffer afterward.
Idioms and Phrases
Being careful may avoid disaster, as in I'm not taking any short-cuts—better safe than sorry . This cautionary phrase appeared as better sure than sorry in 1837.Example Sentences
All the same, better safe than sorry.
“So much of pregnancy advice is based on fear and a ‘better safe than sorry’ sort of framework.â€
Many people take a bit of this, and a bit of that, so better safe than sorry.
With so many lives lost there, he said, officials may have felt they were “better safe than sorry.â€
Since your emergency may not come with a forecast and time to prepare, better safe than sorry.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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