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Better safe than sorry
It is better to act cautiously beforehand than to suffer afterward.
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Idioms and Phrases
Being careful may avoid disaster, as in I'm not taking any short-cuts—better safe than sorry. This cautionary phrase appeared as better sure than sorry in 1837.
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All the same, better safe than sorry.
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“So much of pregnancy advice is based on fear and a ‘better safe than sorry’ sort of framework.”
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Many people take a bit of this, and a bit of that, so better safe than sorry.
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With so many lives lost there, he said, officials may have felt they were “better safe than sorry.”
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Since your emergency may not come with a forecast and time to prepare, better safe than sorry.
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