a change is as good as a rest
- a change is as good as a rest
1890 A. CONAN DOYLE in Lippincott’s Monthly Mag. Feb. x. 198 Well, I gave my mind a thorough rest by plunging into a chemical analysis. One of our greatest statesmen has said that a change of work is the best rest. So it is.
1895 J. THOMAS Randigal Rhymes 59 Change of work is as good as touchpipe [a short interval of rest].
1903 V. S. LEAN Collectanea III. 439 Change of work is rest. (Manx.)
1951 M. COLES Now or Never ii. On the principle that a change of work is a rest, we redecorated the bathroom... We came to the conclusion that the saying is a fallacy.
1967 O. MILLS Death enters Lists viii. There would be no fish-bits for Whiskers..but she could buy him some fish-pieces; and a change was as good as a rest, she remembered.
1984 D. CANNELL Thin Woman xiii. Me old grandpa used to say ‘a change is as good as a rest’, and at my time of life variety don’t often come aknocking.
1994 S. SHAW Villain of Earth (1995) iv. 33 ‘No disrespect to John Quennell, but my career’s not really advancing as it ought to, and perhaps our relationship’s a little on the stale side. A change is as good as a rest, as they say.’
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