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Better safe than sorry
- It is better to act cautiously beforehand than to suffer afterward.
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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.Advertisement
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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