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Hly2004 Posted 21 years ago
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finding an idiom ...
(1)story:
"many years ago one tried to grow a tree.but the tree finally died even treated very well by him ,but the other day,he put a seed into the soil,and several years later,the seed becomes a tree"
(2)explanation:
if we want to find something/get someting ,it never come to us,
but ,if we don't pay much attention to it,and let it be,the thing we want will come to us naturally.
(3) question: how to express this meaning in an idiom?
Thank you in advance.
ps: I hope i make myself understood...:-)
"many years ago one tried to grow a tree.but the tree finally died even treated very well by him ,but the other day,he put a seed into the soil,and several years later,the seed becomes a tree"
(2)explanation:
if we want to find something/get someting ,it never come to us,
but ,if we don't pay much attention to it,and let it be,the thing we want will come to us naturally.
(3) question: how to express this meaning in an idiom?
Thank you in advance.
ps: I hope i make myself understood...:-)
Top answer
A watched pot never boils. Good things come to those who wait. Not quite your requested meaning though.
- A watched pot never boils.
- Good things come to those who wait.
- Not quite your requested meaning though.
- I'm not sure we have one idiom that covers both ideas.
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A watched pot never boils. Good things come to those who wait.
Not quite your requested meaning though. I'm not sure we have one idiom that covers both ideas.
Not quite your requested meaning though. I'm not sure we have one idiom that covers both ideas.
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We have a nursery rhyme:
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Little Bo-Peep
Has lost her sheep
And doesn't know where to find them.
Leave them alone
And they'll come home
Wagging their tails behind them.
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