On 2009/03/12, at 7:48 AM, John Frewen-Lord wrote:
I contributed an article to the UK Metric Views website entitled
'User Friendly' metric. Go to http://www.metricviews.org.uk/
Dear John,
I read and enjoyed your article and then looked up proverbs on Google.
I found a reasonably good source at http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/proverbs.html
Surprisingly, I found that there are few proverbs related to
measurement. I used the search facility on the site to check for all
the usual suspects: inch, foot, yard, mile are examples.
The following are just some random thoughts that occurred to me as I
read through some of these. Please excuse the quality of some of these
— it's late and I'm tired.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest 7.92 inches.
Give him a millimetre and he'll take a kilometre.
Many watts make light work.
Don't do the hard yards; the metre is neater — and sweeter.
Old cubits die hard, as do the old inch, the old foot, and the old yard.
A gram of prevention is better than a tonne of cure.
Share the rod, pole, and perch and spoil the kid, child, and teen.
It's the last gram that breaks the camel's back.
People who live in glasshouses need to undress in the dark.
A millimetre miss is a kilometre miss.
A 300 millimetre pianist?
The kilometre high club.
In for a cent, in for a dollar.
Cent wise, dollar foolish.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
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