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  2. Metalepsis - Wikipedia

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    "The early bird catches the worm" is a common maxim, advising an early start on the day to achieve success. The subject, by referring to this maxim, is compared to the bird; tomorrow, the speaker will awake early in order to achieve success.

  3. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    The early bird catches the worm; The end justifies the means; The enemy of my enemy is my friend; The exception which proves the rule; The female of the species is more deadly than the male; The good die young; The grass is always greener (on the other side) (of the fence) The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

  4. Waking up early - Wikipedia

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    There is a book entitled "'Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise', or, Early Rising: A Natural, Social, and Religious Duty" [8] by Anna Laetitia Waring from 1855, sometimes misattributed to Franklin. "The early bird gets the worm" is a proverb that suggests that getting up early will lead to success during the day.

  5. Augustine's laws - Wikipedia

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    The early bird gets the worm. The early worm...gets eaten. Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction. Most projects start out slowly, and then sort of taper off. The more one produces, the less one gets. Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.

  6. Two Black Crows - Wikipedia

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    Their catch phrase, "Who wants a worm, anyhow?", was the punchline to a lengthy dialogue that Moran initiated by telling Mack that, "The early bird catches the worm". Mack had never heard the expression, so he took it literally, and frustrated Moran by repeatedly asking inane questions about the saying. "Who wants a worm, anyhow?"

  7. The Early Bird - Wikipedia

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    The Early Bird is a 1965 British comedy film directed by Robert Asher and starring Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman, Bryan Pringle, Richard Vernon, John Le Mesurier and Jerry Desmonde. [1] It was the first Norman Wisdom film to be shot in colour. The title is taken from the expression "the early bird catches the worm".

  8. China fairing - Wikipedia

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    Occasionally fairings descend into the downright rude, such as "The early bird catches the worm", in which a goose pecks at what it thinks is a worm, only to cause pain to a young lad who is relieving himself. Another one is "Review" in which two lecherous men admire a scantily clad woman emerging from bathing.

  9. The Early Worm Gets the Bird - Wikipedia

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    The youngsters prepare again to go to sleep; the book-reader tells the other two that he will get up early in the morning and go catch the worm. At five a.m., he sneaks out and begins sniffing out a worm. Meanwhile, a worm has come across the discarded book and reads about the "early bird"; he decides to sniff one out.