more haste, less speed
proverbEtymology
The word speed is used here in the dated sense of “success, luck”, though probably with a pun on the sense “velocity”. Compare the same in Low German je gröter Hast, je minder Spood.
- derived from je gröter Hast
Definitions
When one is in a hurry, one often ends up having less success and completing a task more…
When one is in a hurry, one often ends up having less success and completing a task more slowly.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for more haste, less speed. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA