{"id":3830,"date":"2015-04-21T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2015-05-07T12:10:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T08:10:39","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"\u10e1\u10d0\u10d8\u10dc\u10e2\u10d4\u10e0\u10d4\u10e1\u10dd \u10e1\u10d8\u10e2\u10e7\u10d5\u10d4\u10d1\u10d8 \u10d3\u10d0 \u10d2\u10d0\u10db\u10dd\u10dc\u10d0\u10d7\u10e5\u10d5\u10d0\u10db\u10d4\u10d1\u10d8 \u2013 If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Don’t try to improve something that already works fairly well. You’ll probably end up causing new problems.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

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

It’s been a colloquial phrase in the southern states of the USA. For example, this piece is from the Texas newspaper The\u00a0Big Spring Herald<\/em>, December, 1976:<\/p>\n

“We would agree with the old Georgia farmer who said his basic principle was ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The phrase has to be American. In England things don’t get broke, they get broken. ‘Ain’t broke’ is intended as a knowing southern yokelism, as opposed to ‘proper’ American, but it is one that wouldn’t have originated anywhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” What does it …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[1591,182,1652,191,307],"class_list":["post-3830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-april-2015","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it","tag-interesting-expression","tag-interesting-phrase","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830","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=3830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}