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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.”
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.”
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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