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My saying/idioms: A stitch in time saves nine Daylight robbery
My idioms/Sayings My saying/idioms: A stitch in time saves nine Daylight robbery
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A stitch in time saves nine
Means: You use this proverb to say that it is better to spend a little time to deal with problems rather than waiting. If you wait until later, things will get worse, and it will take much longer to deal with them.
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Origin The 'stitch in time' notion has been current in English for a very long time and is first recorded in Thomas Fuller's Gnomologia, Adagies and Proverbs, Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British, 1732: "A Stitch in Time May save nine."
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Daylight robbery! Means: Shameless and unfair overcharging.
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Origin In 1696, William III of England introduced a property tax which required those living in houses with more than six windows to pay a fee. In order to avoid the tax, house owners would brick up all windows except six. As the bricked-up windows prevented some rooms from receiving any sunlight, the tax was referred to as daylight robbery. (The Window Tax lasted until around 1851, and older houses with bricked-up windows are still a common sight in UK.)
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