We often grow up hearing sayings that our parents recite and we never know the origin. Recently British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said "A Stitch in Time Saves Nine." My mom used to say it. And that's what Johnson said as he announced extra rules on things like pub closing times in England. So, BBC News decided to find out the origins of that saying, and you'll read about it in today's blog:
The phrase basically means it's better to solve a problem right away, to stop it becoming a much bigger one. Procrastination means to delay or put off doing something until a later time. In terms of sewing, if there's a small tear in a fabric, if you don't mend it quickly, it will become much larger, and require 9 stitches to fix instead of one.
It's first recorded in a book way back in 1723 and it's a sewing reference.
The idea is that sewing up a small rip with one stitch means the tear is less likely to get bigger, and need more - or, well, nine - stitches later on.
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