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What does the phrase "a feather at hand is better than a bird in the air" mean?
i got it in a fortune cookie and it really struck me dumbfounded
5 Answers
- Anonymous2 decades agoFavorite Answer
If you think of it as a statement, you are on the hunt for the bird you have felled. The fallen bird is within your grasp, you just need to find it. Without the "feather at hand" you have no hope for reward, i.e , food , knowledge, and other manifestations of gain.
Source(s): Life. - frodoLv 62 decades ago
Sounds like there was a problem in the cookie factory translating from English to Chinese and back again the proverb "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush".
Reminds me of another proverb which was translated twice.
The wine is good but the meat is rotten.
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The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
- 2 decades ago
To my understanding it means that you have something that is tangable...rather than just watching it..
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