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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry
- No matter how carefully a project is planned, something may still go wrong with it. The saying is adapted from a line in “To a Mouse,” by Robert Burns : “The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley.”
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As the Scottish poet Robert Burns coined, “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”
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Well, as the saying goes: the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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“The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”
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In sports, “the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”
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