if ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers

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• if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers’ hands — Used as a humorous retort to an over optimistic conditional expression. ands: the conjunction and ‘if’, of which an is a weakened form, is employed irregularly here as a noun to denote ‘an expression of condition or doubt’. 1850 C. KINGSLEY Alton …   Proverbs new dictionary

• work — noun see all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy work expands so as to fill the time available it is not work that kills, but worry the devil finds work for idle hands to do the end crowns the work …   Proverbs new dictionary

• and — see if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers’ hands …   Proverbs new dictionary

• Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Thematic Index — absence absence makes the heart grow fonder he who is absent is always in the wrong the best of friends must part blue are the hills that are far away distance lends enchantment to the view out of sight, out of mind …   Proverbs new dictionary

• hand — see one hand for yourself and one for the ship the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world one hand washes the other a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush cold hands, warm heart the devil finds work for idle hands to do …   Proverbs new dictionary

• if — see if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers’ hands …   Proverbs new dictionary

• pan — see if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers’ hands …   Proverbs new dictionary

• pot — see if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers’ hands a little pot is soon hot you cannot get a quart into a pint pot a watched pot never boils …   Proverbs new dictionary

• tinker — see if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers’ hands …   Proverbs new dictionary