"if you want a thing done well, do it yourself" meaning in All languages combined

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Proverb [英語]

  1. 求人不如求己
    Sense id: zh-if_you_want_a_thing_done_well,_do_it_yourself-en-proverb-BH-VgGBc
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: if you want something done, do it yourself, if you want a thing done right, do it yourself, if you want it done right, do it yourself
Categories (other): 有1個詞條的頁面, 有詞條的頁面, 英語詞元, 英語諺語
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