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TOMORROW never comes
1523Froissart
(1901) II. 309
It was sayde every day among them, we shall fight tomorowe, the whiche day came never.
1602
Letter
8 May (1939) I. 142
Tomorrow comes not yet.
1678
English Proverbs
(ed. 2) 343
Tomorrow come never.
1756
Poor Richard's Almanack
(July)
To-morrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that To-morrow never comes.
1889
Nether World
III. ix.
‘It's probably as well for you that
to-morrow
never comes.’ ‘Now just see how things turn out!’ went on the other.
1966
I start Counting
xvii.
‘It's late, honey. Talk tomorrow.’ ‘Tomorrow never comes.’
future;
procrastination
tomorrow
The TONGUE always returns to the sore tooth
1586tr.
S. Guazzo's Civil Conversation
(1925) II. 201
The tongue rolles there where the tooth aketh.
1659
Proverbs
(Spanish) 27
There the tongue goes where the tooth akes.
1746
Poor Richard's Almanack
(July)
The Tongue is ever turning to the aching tooth.
1817
Letters from South
II. 167
The tongue touches where the tooth aches, as the saying goes; the English of which is that people are apt to talk of what annoys them most at the moment.
1949
Walk Dark Streets
ii.
He would stop .. to find the flaws in his case were standing over him, implacable, like the certainty of guilt. The tongue always returned to the sore tooth.
persistence
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