"a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" meaning in All languages combined

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      "name": "派生自拉丁語的英語詞",
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  "etymology_text": "仿譯自拉丁語 plus valet in manibus avis unica quam dupla silvis (“一鳥在手勝過二鳥在林”)，可能源自古代中東（西元前6世紀）。西元前5世紀，以帝國亞拉姆語寫成的《阿希卡爾的故事》中就有「手中一隻麻雀勝過千隻飛翔的麻雀」的說法。",
  "lang": "英語",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "proverb",
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          "name": "英語引文翻譯請求",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "15th c., John Capgrave, Life of St Katherine, Bodleian MS Rawlinson poet. 118, Bk. II:",
          "text": "It is more sykyr a bryd in youre fyste\nThan to have thre in the sky above\nAnd more profitabyl to youre behove."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1737, Henry Fielding, Pasquin, Act II, Scene I, p. 27:",
          "text": "May. No, but the Sides are going to be changed ; and Sir Harry is to be ſome very great Man ; and as ſoon as he is, I am to be made an Embaſſador of.\n Mrs. May. Made an Aſs of! Will you never learn of me, that a Bird in the Hand is worth two in the Buſh ?"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1864, William W. Story, “The Campagna”, 出自 Roba Di Roma, 第 II 卷，第 8 頁:",
          "text": "[An] acquaintance ... proposed to pay a ... proportion of the cost of the cellar provided he should have as his own everything of value that might be found [excavating]. A bird in the hand, thought Bardolph, is worth two in the bush, so he ... accepted the proposal."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "一鳥在手勝於十鳥在林；確定的事情比單純獲得更多事情的機會更可取 （15世紀）"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "better an egg today than a hen tomorrow"
    },
    {
      "word": "take the cash and let the credit go"
    }
  ],
  "word": "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"
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  "etymology_text": "仿譯自拉丁語 plus valet in manibus avis unica quam dupla silvis (“一鳥在手勝過二鳥在林”)，可能源自古代中東（西元前6世紀）。西元前5世紀，以帝國亞拉姆語寫成的《阿希卡爾的故事》中就有「手中一隻麻雀勝過千隻飛翔的麻雀」的說法。",
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          "ref": "15th c., John Capgrave, Life of St Katherine, Bodleian MS Rawlinson poet. 118, Bk. II:",
          "text": "It is more sykyr a bryd in youre fyste\nThan to have thre in the sky above\nAnd more profitabyl to youre behove."
        },
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          "ref": "1737, Henry Fielding, Pasquin, Act II, Scene I, p. 27:",
          "text": "May. No, but the Sides are going to be changed ; and Sir Harry is to be ſome very great Man ; and as ſoon as he is, I am to be made an Embaſſador of.\n Mrs. May. Made an Aſs of! Will you never learn of me, that a Bird in the Hand is worth two in the Buſh ?"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1864, William W. Story, “The Campagna”, 出自 Roba Di Roma, 第 II 卷，第 8 頁:",
          "text": "[An] acquaintance ... proposed to pay a ... proportion of the cost of the cellar provided he should have as his own everything of value that might be found [excavating]. A bird in the hand, thought Bardolph, is worth two in the bush, so he ... accepted the proposal."
        }
      ],
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        "一鳥在手勝於十鳥在林；確定的事情比單純獲得更多事情的機會更可取 （15世紀）"
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    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "better an egg today than a hen tomorrow"
    },
    {
      "word": "take the cash and let the credit go"
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  "word": "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"
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