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Practice makes perfect

  1. Doing something over and over makes one better at it.


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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.
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Example Sentences

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So far, practice makes perfect.

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For the the second goal, it was a case of practice makes perfect.

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Call it chemistry, call it instinct, or maybe practice makes perfect.

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The SmartSnap takes some getting used to, but practice makes perfect, and you’ll get plenty of it during your tour.

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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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