more haste, less speed

proverb

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from je gröter Hast

Definitions

  1. 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