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Practice makes perfect
- Doing something over and over makes one better at it.
Idioms and Phrases
Frequently doing something makes one better at doing it, as in I've knit at least a hundred sweaters, but in my case practice hasn't made perfect . This proverbial expression was once put as Use makes mastery , but by 1560 the present form had become established.Example Sentences
So far, practice makes perfect.
For the the second goal, it was a case of practice makes perfect.
Call it chemistry, call it instinct, or maybe practice makes perfect.
The SmartSnap takes some getting used to, but practice makes perfect, and you’ll get plenty of it during your tour.
In the historic quest to bring samples from across the solar system back to Earth, the best mantra for success may be a simple, familiar phrase: “practice makes perfect.â€
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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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