if you run after two hares, you will catch neither

if you run after two hares, you will catch neither

proverb If you try to do two things at once, you will fail. You can't look for that file and dictate a message at the same time. Didn't your mother ever tell you that if you run after two hares, you will catch neither? The government is trying to cut taxes while simultaneously expanding public amenities. But if you run after two hares, you will catch neither. When I assign you a task, please focus on only that, OK? If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.

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If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.

Prov. You cannot do two things successfully at the same time. Vanessa: If I want to pursue my acting career, I'll have to take more days off to go to auditions. But I want to get ahead in the office, too. Jane: If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.

See also: after, catch, if, neither, run, two, will

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