English Explanatory Dictionary

the tooter the sweeter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. the sooner the better (it is better if something happens or is done soon)

Word forms

the tooter the sweeter

Etymology

From toot sweet, a phonetic rendering of French tout de suite (“immediately”) into English-looking words, then jokingly treated as two English adverbs that can be used in comparative forms.

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