slow and steady wins the race
Meaning: Patience and persistence succeed better than haste.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Example: “Save a little every month; slow and steady wins the race.”
Category: Animals
Origin: The moral of Aesop's fable of the tortoise and the hare. The English phrasing is found from the 18th century.
Equivalents in other languages
- French: Qui va piano va sano — literally: Who goes gently goes safely
More idioms — Animals
- like a duck to water — Naturally and easily, as if born to it.
- kill the goose that lays the golden eggs — To destroy a source of profit out of greed.
- with one's tail between one's legs — Humiliated and defeated.
- a workhorse — A person or machine that does a large amount of hard, reliable work.
- bite the hand that feeds you — To harm or insult someone who helps you.
- in two shakes of a lamb's tail — Very quickly.
More English idioms
- go by shanks' mare — To walk; to travel on foot.
- as old as Methuselah — Extremely old.
- have a foot in both camps — To be involved with two opposing sides at once.
- deaf as a post — Completely deaf.
- ugly as sin — Very ugly.
- terra firma — Solid ground, as opposed to the sea or the air.
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