query: Is there a proverb in English to convey the meaning "Attempting to catch a flying bird by accidentally releasing the one in hand."?
positive_passages.docid: 143866
positive_passages.text: What's a good idiom or saying to say "don't leave your current job before getting another"?
negative_passages.docid: 54630
negative_passages.text: Word/phrase to mean something that just happens once
negative_passages.docid: 38317
negative_passages.text: What is the idiom, proverb for "Little problems often become big problems if no one takes the initiative to correct them"
negative_passages.docid: 81155
negative_passages.text: Is there a word for the opposite of an intended effect?
negative_passages.docid: 43920
negative_passages.text: Idiom that means trying to save something that is beyond saving
negative_passages.docid: 64980
negative_passages.text: Idiomatic expression for a difficult choice
negative_passages.docid: 23384
negative_passages.text: Idioms for fake sadness other than crocodile tears?
negative_passages.docid: 110454
negative_passages.text: Idiom meaning that something doesn't happen often, but happens more than needed when it does?
negative_passages.docid: 97020
negative_passages.text: Idiom for doing anything to get what you want
negative_passages.docid: 145888
negative_passages.text: Is there a word to describe the virtue of "to do something and ask for nothing in return"?
negative_passages.docid: 34681
negative_passages.text: Is there an English idiom for trying to do two things at the same time and failing at both of them due to splitting your effort?
negative_passages.docid: 125399
negative_passages.text: English equivalent for the Persian proverb "The mountain just gave birth to a mouse"
negative_passages.docid: 80509
negative_passages.text: Weighing a flying bird
negative_passages.docid: 120718
negative_passages.text: Idiom for someone "not from this world"?
negative_passages.docid: 128930
negative_passages.text: Is there an English idiom for Bengali idiom "সবজান্তা গামছাওয়ালা"(wise towelsman)?
negative_passages.docid: 77522
negative_passages.text: The phrase "caught flat footed"
negative_passages.docid: 142822
negative_passages.text: What's the English equivalent of "Drilling one's head"?