Poor Richard – Blog EBE https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg English Book Education Thu, 07 May 2015 08:11:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-English-Book-Education-Symbol-02-32x32.png Poor Richard – Blog EBE https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg 32 32 საინტერესო სიტყვები და გამონათქვამები – A watched pot never boils https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/interesting-words-and-expressions-a-watched-pot-never-boils/ Mon, 09 Mar 2015 12:28:53 +0000 http://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/?p=3566 “A watched pot never boils.”

What does it mean?

If something takes time to finish, don’t watch it too closely because it will seem like it’s taking forever.

Where does it come from?

‘A watched pot never boils’ is one of the homely and improving proverbs that is ascribed to Poor Richard, which was the pseudonym that Benjamin Franklin used when publishing his widely popular annual almanac.

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