English Explanatory Dictionary

first catch your hare

English dictionary entry

Meanings

proverb
  1. Make sure you have a thing before you decide what to do with it.

Word forms

first catch your hare

Etymology

Supposedly from an error in The Art of Cookery by Hannah Glasse, where "catch" should have read "case" (i.e. remove the skin); however, this is apocryphal.

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