What the hell does "A stitch in time saves nine" mean?
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If you ever did any sewing, you'd notice that when a seam splits or a thread breaks, the whole row of stitches will come out - especially something sewn on a sewing machine.\n\nSo the phrase is a cautionary warning to mend a split seam or torn threads before the garment starts to come apart.\n\nOver time it has become a metaphor warning people not to procrastinate or delay.  It's a little bit like \n\nan ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure\n\nit just means don't postpone the inevitable.
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It says 'pitagora suicchi'- this literally means 'Pitagora Switch'. \n\nI just checked on Yahoo Japan for you, and it looks like it is the name of a kind of cartoon show. I've never seen it before though, so I can't tell you anything about the contents of the show.
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It's from a Japanese game "Zero Wing."  It was a bad translation that became an internet phenomenon in 2001-2, heralding geek culture.
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You can minimize a problem by taking a small corrective action now rather than waiting to later on.  For example, if your clothes seam comes loose, refastening it with one stitch now will save you from having to make nine stitches tomorrow when the seam has loosened even more.  Expanding on that, if there is a small plumbing leak in your house today and you fix it now, it will be less work than if you wait for a ceiling to be ruined too.\n\nTime and nine almost rhyme making for a catchy easy to remember phrase, but you could as easily say, "A stitch in time saves six" or eleven, etc. to get the point.
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it just means "oh gosh!" or "gadzooks!" just an exclamation. it doesnt mean anything
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not sure of the exact meaning but to me it means ummm  lol  - liek   you learned from this mishap now go from there. i guess its hard to explain.  jsut kinda means that you know now     now you have to use it to benefit from it
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I understand what you are saying when you mention the permutations for 10 digits, but I think you're missing what it really means.  First, this isn't right to think of it this way to think about this.  Non-repeating doesn't mean that I can't find a string in the decimal expansion that's the same as an earlier string (for example, finding a piece 14159 later in pi isn't impossible).  What it means is that there is no point where the digits in pi *completely* repeat (i.e. it becomes something like 141591415914159.... on and on forever).  So you're right, it can include some kind of partial repeat, but non-repeating means it can't have a total repeat.\n\nYour comment about the permutations (not combinations) on the numbers {0,...,9} is right but it's used incorrectly also.  It's wrong because of what I mentioned above.  Basically it's assuming that once you pick a number you can't repeat it again in a 10 digit sequence, but that's clearly wrong (again, 14159 appears in pi, where 1 occurs twice).  So you have several right ideas here but you're combining them seomwhat incorrectly.\n\nHope this clears things up!!
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Not sure what the Snickers reference is saying.  Maybe they use an image that gives a different meaning.\n\nUsually it means falsifying accounting records.  Hope that helps.   : )
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The translation is "Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon"\nMakes no sense, but rumours say it will actually mean something in the 7th and final book.
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I have never heard this phrase in my seven years. What is the context?
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The phrase "the whole nine yards" means "completely, the whole, everything" - e.g.:\n\n"I was mugged. They took my wallet, my keys, my shoes, my coat - the whole nine yards!"\n\nThe origins of the expression are unknown, but various theories are popularly held as to the root of it. One of the more common of these is that the expression dates from the Second World War, where the "nine yards" was the full length of a machine-gun ammunition belt, and to "go the full nine yards" was to use it up in its entirety. The expression, however, has only been dated back to 1966 (in U.S. Air Force slang recorded in Vietnam) and it is unlikely it could have been in common use in the 1940s without being recorded either then or in the next twenty years.\n\nThe phrase could also be attributed to the tailoring industry, in which a quality suit of clothing required nine yards of material. To tailor a quality suit "takes the whole nine yards."\n\nOther suggested origins have included sources as diverse as the size of cement mixers, the length of bridal veils, the manufacture of kilts, the length of cloth bolts, and the structure of certain sailing vessels (where "yard" is short for yardarm, not for the distance).\n\nAnother explanation is that the term is a sarcastic reference to American football, where ten yards is the length of a first down. With running nine yards being no real achievement, to say that someone ran 'the whole nine yards' would be to say that they almost achieved something.\n\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whole_Nine_Yards
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it comes from the adding of color to wool. for once you add the dye the color was set and could not be changed. so the phrase means something that cannot be changed.
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'The early bird gets the worm'\n\n'A stitch in time saves nine'\n\nI do't know what you mean by show them.
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It's a mixed metaphor, a mixture of what appears to be your American version of 'to throw a spanner in the works' and 'a fly in the ointment'.\n\nI guess it's supposed to mean buggering things up just to be a pain.
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it means  laughing my a** off.  \n\nanother you might see is ROFL   rolling on the floor laughing.
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I think it means to stay out of other peoples' troubles today or in other words, tend to your own knitting today.  Gee, I better check mine out.
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It means "about" or "roughly."\n\nFor example:\nThe world population is ~6.5 Billion.\n\nOnline it's used for lots of things, including making decorative section breaks, such as this:\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n\nIf it's on top of a letter, such as with "ñ" or "Ñ," then it's an accent mark. (FYI - you can make these characters by holding the "Alt" key while entering the numbers "164" or "165," respectively.\n\nHope this helps.