More Idioms

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A couple more idioms.

 

The early bird gets the worm.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/127000.html

Meaning:*  Success comes to those who prepare well and put in effort.

Origin:*  First recorded in Joyn Ray’s A Collection of English proverbs 1670, 1678; indicates that this was considered proverbial even in the 17th century.

Example:*  Plan ahead and make it happen.

Carpe diem.* 

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/carpe-diem.html

Meaning:*  “Pluck the day” is the correct translation:however, usually translated from Latin as “˜seize the day’.*  “˜Carpe’ translates literally as “˜pluck’, with particular reference to the picking of fruit:such as pluck the day when it is ripe.

The extended version of the phrase “˜carpe diem’, quam minimum cre4dula postero’ translates as “˜pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the future..

Origin: Latin phrase in the lyric poet Quintus Haratius Flaccus (65 BC ” 8 BDC).*  Lord Byroh’s use of the phrase first began its inspiration into English.*  He included it in his 1817 work “˜Letters’, published in 1830 by Thomas Moore.

Example: * Do now, don’t wait.*  The past is gone and future is unknown.