Timeline for Is it customary to omit or replace ‘head’ with ‘x-year / mile/ pound’ in the idiom “have a head start on sb” when the advantage should be quantified?
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| Jun 5, 2013 at 3:16 | vote | accept | Yoichi Oishi | ||
| Jun 4, 2013 at 22:44 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | FumbleFingers. Though not exactly the same with ‘Six of one and half-a-dozen of the other,’ we have the similar saying, “There’s no big difference between 50 steps and 100 steps. This is the borrowing from Chinese maxim, 五十歩笑百歩- 'wu shi bu xiao bai bu' in the Mencius.- Emperor Hui of the State of Liang (BC 4 century) says: There were two soldiers who were defeated in a bottle. One retreated fifty paces and the other retreated a hundred paces. The former mocked the latter because of his retreat of one hundred paces. | |
| Jun 4, 2013 at 20:48 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I think it's six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. In Google Books, gave him a few minutes head start and the same without "head" both have a couple of dozen hits. It's much the same with similar search terms. | |
| Jun 4, 2013 at 19:55 | history | answered | Lynn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |