Better safe than sorry

This page is about the saying "Better safe than sorry"

Possible meaning:
We should be careful in a dangerous situation. It is better to stay safe than to have an accident (and be sorry about it). The full "grammatical" sentence would be: "It is better to be safe than to be sorry."

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