Idiom "if the grass could be greener"
Please someone tell me is there anything wrong with following sentence and tell me how can I use this phrase in other sentences.
I do not need to wonder if the grass could be greener elsewhere.
What I wanted to tell was I do not need to compare things and check if they are better than something I already have. Is above sentence has similar meaning as this.
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In US English, this phrase is typically kept simple (it has the greatest impact that way) and is used only in the present tense, "is," that is, not with past tenses, perfect tenses, or with modal auxiliaries: "the grass is greener." For example:
"I never think about whether the grass is greener somewhere else."
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