
ProverbWisdom
English origin
You can't be half pregnant
Meaning: A condition either exists completely or not at all; commitment cannot be partial or ambiguous.
Origin: A folk saying for situations with no middle ground: either something is so or it isn't. Its first use hasn't been traced.
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