cross the bridge when one comes to it

  • 1cross a bridge before one comes to it — {v. phr.} To worry about future events or trouble before they happen. Usually used in negative sentences, often as a proverb. * / Can I be a soldier when I grow up, Mother? asked Johnny. Don t cross that bridge until you come to it, said his… …

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  • 2cross a bridge before one comes to it — {v. phr.} To worry about future events or trouble before they happen. Usually used in negative sentences, often as a proverb. * / Can I be a soldier when I grow up, Mother? asked Johnny. Don t cross that bridge until you come to it, said his… …

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  • 3don’t cross the bridge till you come to it — Do not concern yourself with difficulties until they arise. Now also common as the metaphorical phrase to cross one’s bridges when one comes to them. 1850 LONGFELLOW Journal 29 Apr. in Life (1886) II. 165 Remember the proverb, ‘Do not cross the… …

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  • 4bridge — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a a structure carrying a road, path, railway, etc., across a stream, ravine, road, railway, etc. b anything providing a connection between different things (English is a bridge between nations). 2 the superstructure on a ship from …

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  • 6cross — 1 verb 1 GO FROM ONE SIDE TO ANOTHER (I, T) to go or stretch from one side of something such as a road, river, room etc to the other: It took them four weeks to cross the desert. | Look both ways before you cross the road. | The railway line from …

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