look before one leaps

verb

look before one leaps

verb

1

Idiomatic To think before taking action.

Related terms: check yourself before you wreck yourself, good things come to those who wait, haste makes waste, he who hesitates is lost, learn to walk before one can run, marry in haste, repent at leisure

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