[Lexicog] "It ain't over til' the fat lady sings"

[Fritz Goerling]

To keep the verb ‘jump’ and the figurative sense of the “fat lady” idiom,
how about English equivalents like

‘Don’t jump the gun” or “Don’t jump to conclusions”?

 

FG

> John Roberts: I am not sure I understand what 'Don't say 'jump' before you

> do' means. Does it mean something like 'Look before you leap'?

This is exactly what it means...
Except I wanted to give you the word-by-word rendering into English :-)

> Polish:
> Nie mów "hop" zanim nie przeskoczysz...
> (Don't say 'jump' before you do)

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