more haste less speed
1more haste less speed — haste makes waste/more haste less speed/ phrase used for saying that if you do something too quickly, you are likely to make mistakes Thesaurus: ways of telling someone not to hurrysynonym Main entry: haste …
2more haste, less speed — ► more haste, less speed proverb you make better progress with a task if you don t try to do it too quickly. Main Entry: ↑haste …
3more haste, less speed — The faster you try to do something, the more likely you are to make mistakes that make you take longer than it would had you planned it …
4more haste, less speed — The original meaning of speed in this proverb is ‘quickness in the performance of some action or operation’. c 1350 Douce MS 52 no. 86 The more hast, the worse spede. 1546 J. HEYWOOD Dialogue of Proverbs I. ii. A3v Moste tymes he seeth, the more… …
5more haste, less speed — proverb you make better progress with a task if you don t try to do it too quickly * * * ˌmore ˈhaste, ˌless ˈspeed idiom (BrE, saying) you will finish doing sth sooner if you do not try to do it too quickly because you will make fewer mistakes… …
6more haste less speed — don t act in haste, haste makes waste, acting too quickly brings poor results …
7more haste, less speed — The faster you try to do something, the more likely you are to make mistakes that make you take longer than it would had you planned it. (Dorking School Dictionary) …
8More haste, less speed — The faster you try to do something, the more likely you are to make mistakes that make you take longer than it would had you planned it …
9haste — ► NOUN ▪ excessive speed or urgency of action. ● more haste, less speed Cf. ↑more haste, less speed ORIGIN Old French …
10haste — [heıst] n [U] [Date: 1200 1300; : Old Frenc] 1.) great speed in doing something, especially because you do not have enough time = ↑hurry ▪ I soon regretted my haste. in your haste to do sth ▪ In his haste to leave, he forgot his briefcase. 2.) in …
