> From: Gail Brock <gbrock_dca at yahoo.com>
>
> This gap in colloquial language has been bothering me, and it seems to
> me
> that a
> list so inventive in toponyms ought to be able to correct it. I
> thought at
> first
> that "Cast your bread upon the waters" or references to "eating your
> seed
> corn"
> would pass as opportunity cost colloquialisms, but they're really more
> about
> consumption vs. investment, and I don't think it's the same thing. I
> was
> trying
> to invent a fake colloquialism, like "Eat steak now, no more milk from
> the
> cow"
> or "Grape juice is fine, but it's future wine," when I realized the
> problem.
> So
> if some of the toponym hounds could divert some attention to this much
> greater
> need . . . .
> ^^^^^^^
> CB: " Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die " ?
>
how about, "a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush, but two birds in the bush *could* be two birds in hand if you're fast enough"? ;-)