three removals are as bad as a fire
- three removals are as bad as a fire
1758 B. FRANKLIN Poor Richard’s Almanack (Preface) I never saw an oft removed Tree, Nor yet an oft removed Family, That throve so well, as those that settled be. And again, Three Removes are as bad as a Fire.
1839 DICKENS Letter 14 Nov. (1965) 1.602 Did you ever ‘move’?.. There is an old proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.
1931 E. PEARSON in Liberty 5 Sept. 28 Mr. Small’s historians have traced at least six removals from place to place after he left his native Portland, and by reckoning ‘three moves as bad as a fire’..you may estimate the extent of his misfortune.
1999 Washington Post 17 Sept. E12 In terms of general disruption, it’s been said that two moves equal one fire. But unlike fires, moves can be planned and budgeted.
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