first catch your hare

短语

释义与例句

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    Make sure you have a thing before you decide what to do with it.

词源

Supposedly from an error in The Art of Cookery by Hannah Glasse, where "catch" should have read "case" (i.e. remove the skin); however, this is apocryphal.

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