| 短语 | don't spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar |
| 释义 | don't spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar proverb don't risk the failure of a large project by trying to economize on trivial things 〈谚〉不要因小失大; 不要捡了芝麻丢了西瓜。 [ORIGIN: referring to the use of tar to keep flies off sores on sheep （from dialect pronunciation of sheep as ship）.] |
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