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“Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.”<\/em><\/p>\n

What does it mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bad things might happen, so be prepared.<\/p>\n

Where does it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This phrase was first used in the 1833 book\u00a0The Wondrous Tale of Alroy <\/i>by British novelist, essayist, and twice Prime Minister of the UK,\u00a0Benjamin\u00a0Disraeli. In chapter 3 of his book, he writes “I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.” What does it mean? Bad things might happen, so be prepared. Where does it come from? This phrase was first used in the 1833 book\u00a0The Wondrous Tale of Alroy by British novelist, essayist, and twice Prime Minister of the UK,\u00a0Benjamin\u00a0Disraeli. In chapter 3 of his book, … Continue reading Interesting Words And Expressions \u2013 Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[731,35,34],"tags":[1237,1236,182,1233,191,1212,1234,544,841,1235],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whichbookwouldyouread-bookoftheweek-themes-themeoftheweek-quotes-inspirationalquotes","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-benjamin-disraeli","tag-best","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-hope","tag-interesting-expression","tag-january-2015","tag-prepare","tag-preperation","tag-united-kingdom","tag-worst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3072,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions\/3072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}