look before one leaps

look before one leaps
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Besides, he did not want to go, for the other side of this young Forsyte recoiled from leaping before he looked.(J. Galsworthy, ‘In Chancery’, part II, ch. V) — Кроме того, ему не хотелось идти, потому что в натуре этого юного Форсайта было нечто такое, что удерживало его от опрометчивых поступков.

Certainly he was not a man who was likely to forget to look before he leaped... (L. Strachey, ‘eminent Victorians’, ‘Cardinal Manning’) — Нет сомнения, что кардинал Мэннинг не из тех людей, которые склонны поступать неосмотрительно...


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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