a stitch in time (saves nine)
sayingsaid to mean that it is better to act or deal with problems immediately, because if you wait and deal with them later, things will get worse and the problems will take longer to deal with
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Immediately
- ado
- at/in one fell swoop idiom
- bat
- cuff
- directly
- fell
- forthwith
- instant
- instantaneous
- instantly
- no sooner said than done idiom
- off the bat idiom
- pronto
- quickly
- soon
- spot
- straight
- then
- then and there idiom
- thereupon
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