Timeline for Idiomatic expression for "putting off a task until a disaster strikes" [duplicate]
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| Dec 23, 2023 at 1:01 | history | closed |
Edwin Ashworth Chenmunka livresque |
Duplicate of English proverb for when a solution comes too late | |
| Dec 22, 2023 at 11:39 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Please close your question if you agree it is a spot-on duplicate. It tidies the site, makes it more searchablke. | |
| Dec 22, 2023 at 6:10 | answer | added | Chelmite | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 22, 2023 at 3:14 | vote | accept | Vladimir Baranov | ||
| Dec 22, 2023 at 0:16 | comment | added | John Gordon | "Wait until the last minute" is close, although it does not have the meaning of disaster/emergency, but simply time running out. | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 20:54 | answer | added | Alan | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 18:13 | comment | added | Stef | I've often heard "Wait until it becomes an emergency", especially for organisations (as opposed to people) who plan their resources in a way that they can invest in fixing emergencies but cannot invest in preventing emergencies. | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 17:40 | answer | added | Dragonel | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 15:44 | answer | added | PeteSE4 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 14:59 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | As is What is the idiom/proverb for little problems often become big problems if not dealt with?. | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 14:58 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Then A proverb that expresses the idea that an unaddressed problem will lead to {serious} conseuences has answers and I'd say is a duplicate: ' the idiom a stitch in time saves nine describes the situation well: Solving a difficulty while it is small may save a great deal of trouble in the end.' | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 14:40 | answer | added | Mike | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 14:22 | history | edited | Vladimir Baranov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 21, 2023 at 14:09 | history | edited | Vladimir Baranov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 21, 2023 at 13:54 | comment | added | Vladimir Baranov | @EdwinAshworth, I think the suggested duplicate question has a direct equivalent in Russian "хороша ложка к обеду" - my literal translation is "a spoon is good at dinner time" (google found a better variant "a spoon is dear when lunch is near"); which doesn't quite correspond to what I'm after. It focuses more on when a solution comes too late to be of any use - when the lunch is over the spoon is useless. I'd like to focus more on what PLL showed "a preventive fix done early is much easier than an emergency fix after disaster strikes". | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 13:08 | answer | added | PLL | timeline score: 20 | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 12:55 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 21, 2023 at 12:39 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Does this answer your question? English proverb for when a solution comes too late ('trying to remedy a situation foolishly after the tragedy happened') | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 12:31 | comment | added | Martin Smith | A related term is "fire fighting" - "the practice of dealing with problems as they arise rather than planning strategically to avoid them." but this isn't a whole idiom like "the peasant will not cross himself before it begins to thunder" | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 11:30 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 21, 2023 at 8:51 | answer | added | Kate Bunting | timeline score: 19 | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 4:53 | answer | added | Aaron | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 4:01 | history | edited | livresque |
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| S Dec 21, 2023 at 1:11 | history | asked | Vladimir Baranov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |