As to your actual question, I know it took years for me to figure out 'a stitch in time' (I kept mistakenly associating it with A Wrinkle In Time), which is one I can imagine fading out of use for certain classes of people as high-end clothes transition to nano- and other seamless material. (Now that I'm independent, of course, I'm only all too aware that yes, a stitch in time does save nine, so grab those threads and needles stat.)
Some other ones...(cheats and looks at Wikipedia to get the exact phrasings); as is with the one above, there certain assumptions re: culture and privilege in terms of whether the saying in question still might have some experiential teeth.
Take it with a grain of salt.
All frills and no knickers.
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
A candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long
To burn the candle at both ends.
Don't have too many irons in the fire.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. [BOMBS AWAY!]
For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
Good wine needs no bush. [Thank you As You Like It]
Not enough room to swing a cat [one hopes this is anachronistic]
There's more than one way to skin a cat. [as mentioned previously...]
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I suspect this comment should go here instead of there--whoops
Date: Apr. 28th, 2011 11:08 am (UTC)<3
As to your actual question, I know it took years for me to figure out 'a stitch in time' (I kept mistakenly associating it with A Wrinkle In Time), which is one I can imagine fading out of use for certain classes of people as high-end clothes transition to nano- and other seamless material. (Now that I'm independent, of course, I'm only all too aware that yes, a stitch in time does save nine, so grab those threads and needles stat.)
Some other ones...(cheats and looks at Wikipedia to get the exact phrasings); as is with the one above, there certain assumptions re: culture and privilege in terms of whether the saying in question still might have some experiential teeth.