I’m pretty sure my dad used to say that to me. He probably heard it from his dad, one of those sayings that get passed down from generation to generation.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Measure twice, cut once.
Don’t squat with your spurs on.
Most of them have lost their literal application on us. Our world is radically different than the world that produced such useful sayings. Yet we know exactly what the phrase is meant to convey.
You let the cat out of the bag.
Like a chicken with its head cut off.
Off on a wild goose chase.
Here’s my Charlie gettin’ it while the gettin’s good.
He hasn’t been napping well, and he was up for a good portion of the night for Kim. At one point this afternoon he decided that he’d had enough. The van created some shade, and he parked himself on the grass and drifted off to sleepyland.
I’ve been feeling a little tired myself lately. One of my standard answers to “Hey, how you doing?” is “Pretty good–nothing a nap won’t fix!”
I don’t ever get to nap. Do you?
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