"timing is everything" meaning in English

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          "text": "- Telling the old joke about a butt-crack was not a good idea, just as the plumber arrived, Bob.\n- You know what they say: \"timing is everything.\" I'm sure we can find another plumber before the house floods."
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          "ref": "2015, Rob Couty, Timing Is Everything!: Joining The Right Company At The Right Time!, Rob Couty",
          "text": "“Timing Is Everything”. It certainly has been true in my life and chances are it's probably played a role in your life as well. As I look back there were moments where I missed out on something special because I either made the wrong ...",
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          "ref": "2017, Janice Presser, Timing Isn't Everything. Teaming Is., Lulu.com, page 35",
          "text": "So when I'd hear people tell me – in many contexts – that timing is everything, I'd naturally feel uncomfortably constrained. Choked sometimes. Because I knew that I personally possessed virtually no sense of timing in the clock sense of time.",
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          "ref": "2001, Forestry Tactics: Lessons from Malawi's National Forestry Programme, IIED, page 9",
          "text": "... partnership in the new forest policy was one ingredient; but it was the pressing demands on government forestry from an increasingly vocal civil society – that brought a hesitant. Forestry tactics 9 Why now? Why this way? Timing is everything.",
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        "Consideration of other events can greatly influence some desired outcome (such as whether a joke is well received)."
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "consideration of events can influence the outcome",
          "word": "timing er alt"
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  "word": "timing is everything"
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