The taste of the kitchen is better than the smell.
Meaning: Experiencing something firsthand surpasses merely anticipating or imagining it from a distance.
Origin: Recorded in A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, an undated collection published in London by Whittaker & Co. around 1880 and credited to Thomas Preston. Its earlier history hasn't been traced.
More proverbs about Wisdom
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- The knowledge of the disease is half the cure. — Identifying a problem precisely enables you to address it effectively rather than waste e…
- Knowledge, like physic, is more plague than profit, if it arrives too late. — Untimely knowledge burdens without benefit, like medicine administered after death has al…
- An ounce of knowledge may be worth a pound of comfort. — Small, precise understanding often proves more valuable than soothing but empty reassuran…
- The lame goeth as far as the staggerer. — A slow, steady person reaches the destination as surely as one who moves erratically or w…
- After Lammas corn ripens as much by night as by day. — Grain's final ripening accelerates exponentially once the critical August threshold passe…
From our idioms
- róg Amaltei — An abundant and inexhaustible source of wealth or plenty.
- kupować kota w worku — To purchase something without examining it first, risking getting a poor deal.
- zapadać się pod ziemię — To wish to disappear from shame or mortification.