"bird in the hand" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2000 September 6, Maze II, “the Seattle curse?”, in alt.sports.football.pro.dallas-cowboys (Usenet):",
          "text": "Cowboys picks are more miss than hit. Galloway is a relatively young guy, so what the hey. Bird in the hand, right?",
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          "ref": "2003, Robert C. Hereth, Money, Xlibris Corp., →ISBN, page 192:",
          "text": "Elly had ratcheted up the pressure with her threats of leaving early. I had no other bites on the ad. “Bird in the hand” and all that . . . . So much for negotiating.",
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          "ref": "2013, Andrew Taylor, “Catch-13”, in Martin Edwards, editor, Deadly Pleasures, Sutton: Severn House, →ISBN, page 219:",
          "text": "‘Look on the bright side,’ he said when he’d finished. ‘At least we got five hundred quid. Bird in the hand, eh?’",
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          "ref": "2014, Dewey Lambdin, The King's Marauder, New York: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 150:",
          "text": "“Well, there is that, sir,” Harcourt replied after a moment to think that over. “Bird in the hand, and all that?”",
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          "ref": "2018, Alex Goldfayn, Selling Boldly, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:",
          "text": "You're afraid of losing the customer. If I offer them this other product, they might stop buying that product for which they've come to me for years. Bird in the hand, right?",
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          "ref": "2019, Tim Buckley, Cara is Missing, Kibworth Beauchamp: Matador, →ISBN, pages 276–277:",
          "text": "A little bit of cash now means more to the boys than the promise of a fortune who knows when. Bird in the hand, and all […]",
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