"make the perfect the enemy of the good" meaning in English

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      "form": "makes the perfect the enemy of the good",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "making the perfect the enemy of the good",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made the perfect the enemy of the good",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made the perfect the enemy of the good",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "make<,,made> the perfect the enemy of the good"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "glosses": [
        "To reject or bar improvement because it is incomplete."
      ],
      "id": "en-make_the_perfect_the_enemy_of_the_good-en-verb-7MIbFW0-",
      "links": [
        [
          "reject",
          "reject"
        ],
        [
          "bar",
          "bar"
        ],
        [
          "improvement",
          "improvement"
        ],
        [
          "incomplete",
          "incomplete"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To reject or bar improvement because it is incomplete."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "perfect is the enemy of good"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "note": "лу́чшее — враг хоро́шего (lúčšeje — vrag xoróševo)",
          "sense": "Translations"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "göra det bästa till det godas fiende"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "det bästa är det godas fiende"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Perfect is the enemy of good"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make the perfect the enemy of the good"
}

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    {
      "form": "makes the perfect the enemy of the good",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making the perfect the enemy of the good",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made the perfect the enemy of the good",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made the perfect the enemy of the good",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "perfect is the enemy of good"
    }
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      "glosses": [
        "To reject or bar improvement because it is incomplete."
      ],
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        [
          "reject",
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        ],
        [
          "bar",
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          "improvement",
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          "incomplete",
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        "(intransitive) To reject or bar improvement because it is incomplete."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
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      "wikipedia": [
        "Perfect is the enemy of good"
      ]
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "лу́чшее — враг хоро́шего (lúčšeje — vrag xoróševo)",
      "sense": "Translations"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
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      "word": "göra det bästa till det godas fiende"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "det bästa är det godas fiende"
    }
  ],
  "word": "make the perfect the enemy of the good"
}