one year’s seeding makes seven years’ weeding
- one year’s seeding makes seven years’ weeding
On the danger of allowing weeds to grow and seed themselves: also used figuratively.
1866 Rural American 1 Dec. 354 It has been truly remarked that ‘one year’s seeding may cost ten years’ weeding’.
1873 HARLAND & WILKINSON Lancashire Legends 190 One year’s seeding makes seven years’ weeding.
1889 T. F. THISTEL-TON-DYER Folklore of Plants xi. A weed that runs to seed Is a seven years’ weed..implies that disagreeable actions..only too frequently cling to man in after years.
1980 Daily Telegraph 19 Jan. 20 My advice to weed-persons is: do not let your weeds grow to maturity and seed—‘one year’s seeding means seven years’ weeding’.
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year — see there are no birds in last year’s nest a cherry year, a merry year; a plum year, a dumb year keep a thing seven years and you’ll always find a use for it you should know a man seven years before you stir his fire one year’s seeding makes… … Proverbs new dictionary
one — see when one door shuts, another opens one for sorrow, two for mirth; three for a wedding, four for a birth one for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow one nail drives out another one size does not fit all … Proverbs new dictionary
seven — see fall down seven times, get up eight keep a thing seven years and you’ll always find a use for it you should know a man seven years before you stir his fire measure seven times, cut once one year’s seeding makes seven years’ weeding … Proverbs new dictionary
weeding — see one wedding brings another one year’s seeding makes seven years’ weeding … Proverbs new dictionary
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seed — see good seed makes a good crop the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church parsley seed goes nine times to the devil one year’s seeding makes seven years’ weeding … Proverbs new dictionary
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