if ifs and ands were pots and pans
1if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers’ hands — Used as a humorous retort to an over optimistic conditional expression. ands: the conjunction and ‘if’, of which an is a weakened form, is employed irregularly here as a noun to denote ‘an expression of condition or doubt’. 1850 C. KINGSLEY Alton …
2and — see if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers’ hands …
3If wishes were horses, beggars would ride — is an English proverb which is usually used to suggest that it is useless to wish; that better results will be achieved through action.OriginIt is speculated that the proverb may have originated in Scotland, though its earliest documented use is… …
4Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Thematic Index — absence absence makes the heart grow fonder he who is absent is always in the wrong the best of friends must part blue are the hills that are far away distance lends enchantment to the view out of sight, out of mind …
5work — noun see all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy work expands so as to fill the time available it is not work that kills, but worry the devil finds work for idle hands to do the end crowns the work …
6hand — see one hand for yourself and one for the ship the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world one hand washes the other a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush cold hands, warm heart the devil finds work for idle hands to do …
7if — see if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers’ hands …
8pan — see if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers’ hands …
9pot — see if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers’ hands a little pot is soon hot you cannot get a quart into a pint pot a watched pot never boils …
10tinker — see if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers’ hands …