you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs proverb: in order to achieve something, it is inevitable and necessary that some mistakes are made or some sacrifices must occur.
Proverb
you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
- In order to achieve something, it is inevitable and necessary that some mistakes are made or some sacrifices must occur.
- It was remarked to him that he had caused the death of a great many persons. Yes, he replied, omlets are not made without breaking eggs.1796, Walker's Hibernian Magazine
- She. Have you any people at Home, Guy, to be pleased with your performances?
He. One or two. One can't make omelets without breaking eggs.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 93
you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs meaning in Persian
you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs in Persian
- phrase
- املای نانوشته غلط ندارد emlâ-ye nâ-nevešte ġalat nadârad
Forms of you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
| alternative form | you've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette |
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Origin of you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
1796 in English, from French, on ne saurait faire d'omelette sans casser des œufs (1742 and earlier), attributed to François de Charette.
Questions about you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
- What does you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs mean?
- You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs means in order to achieve something, it is inevitable and necessary that some mistakes are made or some sacrifices must occur.
- What is you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs in Persian?
- You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs in Persian is املای نانوشته غلط ندارد (emlâ-ye nâ-nevešte ġalat nadârad). See You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs meaning in Persian.
- What part of speech is you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs?
- You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs is a proverb.
Words near you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs in the dictionary
- you can't judge a book by its cover
- you can't keep a good man down
- you can't live with 'em, you can't live without 'em
- you can't live with them, you can't live without them
- you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear
- you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
- you can't make this stuff up
- you can't make this up
- you can't outrun your fork
- you can't polish a turd
- you can't polish shit
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