| 词汇 | don’t make two bites of a cherry |
| 词源 | don’t make two bites of a cherry. The expression is an old one warning against dividing things too small to be divided, against prolonging for two days jobs that should take only one. It may have some connection with polite European courtiers three centuries ago who acted so daintily in public that they al- ways took two bites to eat a cherry. |
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