- If ifs and ans were pots and pans...
- <03> Если бы "если бы" да "кабы" были горшками да сковородами... Ср. Если бы, да кабы во рту росли грибы.
Англо-русский словарь цитат, пословиц, поговорок и идиом. Академик.ру. 2011.
If ifs and ans were pots and pans...
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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
