"take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves" meaning in English

See take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proverb

Head templates: {{head|en|proverb|head=take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves}} take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves
  1. Alternative form of take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves
    Sense id: en-take_care_of_the_pence_and_the_pounds_will_take_care_of_themselves-en-proverb-egW7HPqK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English proverbs, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "proverb",
        "head": "take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves"
      },
      "expansion": "take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "proverb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English proverbs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_care_of_the_pence_and_the_pounds_will_take_care_of_themselves-en-proverb-egW7HPqK",
      "links": [
        [
          "take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves",
          "take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "proverb",
        "head": "take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves"
      },
      "expansion": "take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "proverb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proverbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves",
          "take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves"
}

Download raw JSONL data for take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves meaning in English (0.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-07-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-07-01 using wiktextract (45c4a21 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.