| 词汇 | strike while the iron is hot |
| 词源 | strike while the iron is hot. A blacksmith has to wield his hammer while the metal on the anvil is red-hot or he loses his opportunity and must heat the iron all over again. Which is the idea behind this phrase meaning to act at the most propitious moment, an expression that goes back at least to Chaucer, who in the Canterbury Tales wrote that while the “Iren is hoot men sholden smyte.” |
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