The English language has many proverbs and sayings about time.
1. Time is money.
2.A stitch in time saves nine.
3.There's no time like the present.
4. Fashionable late.
Please explain what you think are the meanings of each of the 4 expressions
1,Time is money
This is the famous proverb. Time is eqal for everybody. It's up to you how to spend your day, 24 hours. This proverb reminds me that if i waste my time, it's like waste of my money. I don't want to waste my money, because it's important for me to live. I should more careful about how to spend my time. Because time is same as money.
The meaning of this expression is, if you waste of your time, it's like wasting your money. Money is not eqal for everybody, but time is eqal. Everybody gets 24 hours a day. We have to think about that to not to waste our time.
2. A stitch in time saves nine.
Other three expressions are new to me. I've never heard of these proverbs, so let me look for the dictionary. Sorry about that. In dictionary, it says that it is better to deal with problems early than to wait until they get worse. It really makes sence. I think that's true. When we have a problem or thing we don't want to face, people tend to not to deal with those problems and leave them until they get worse. I do now, like my graduate thesis. but i cant leave it cause i will not able to graduate if i don't write it. This sentence is really good proverb for me to face my problems. Good to know !!!!
3.There's no time like the present.
In dictionary, it says; Now is a good time to do something.
Example sentence A:"I should probably was the car" B: " yeah, there's no time like the present"
First, i thought that this proverb would be a same meaning as time is money. But when i looked it up in dictionary it was totaly different. Even though, i know all of the words of the sentence, it doesn't mean that i get the true meaning. I have to learn more English, there's no time like the present =)
4. Fasionable late
In dictionary there is no explanation of this sentence, so i have to guess. I think fashinable late means that someone or something really late for something. If someone comes really late, it could be said "He made a fashinable late" i think. But i don't know the true meaning, so i should ask somebody... !!!
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Hi... I thought your interpretation of the phrase "time is money" was interesting.
Here I am used to thinking of it the other way around. Many of us are paid by the hour, so in this way we will say more time working means more money. Or time that we are not working or producing is money lost.
Rather than saying time is a valuable thing that must not be wasted, I think of it as saying that a moment in time can be assigned a monetary value in some way and usually this phrase would recommend that we conduct ourselves according to this evaluation.
See happycccghost explanation of fashionable late. It si ceerct. Good comments!
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