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If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. 

Without googling or checking reference resources, what do you think this proverb means?

By guessing you are priming your brain for learning, which will help you remember the meaning more easily. It doesn’t matter if your guess is wrong, the key is to exercise your brain by guessing.

Write your guess in the comments below. After you post your guess, go ahead and look it up.

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4 Comments

  1. Katrin

    If something does not look nice but is not broken, thus, does not need to be fixed, it is better to leave it as it is; everything else would be a waste of time.

  2. Amy Estrada

    Yes Katrin, sometimes if you try to improve something you can make it worse.

  3. Nia Khairina

    This proverb means that we should not try to change something if it’s in a good state

  4. Amy Estrada

    Yes Nia, very nice.

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