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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Proverbs 113. The proverb today is half a

  • loaf is better than none. It's kind of self-explanatory. I mean you know,

  • obviously somebody is telling you well it's better to end up with half because

  • you might lose everything and you might have zero. You might have nothing. So half

  • a loaf is better than none. All right. So let's, let's take a look

  • at the note here. This proverb could also be rephrased as half a loaf is better

  • than no loaf. So you might hear it either way. Half a loaf is better than none or

  • half a loaf is better than no loaf. You know, a loaf meaning like a loaf of bread.

  • So one long piece of bread that's together is a loaf. Okay. Again. Let's

  • continue. This proverb could be found as early as 1546. So it's a very old proverb

  • in John Hayward's collection. Remember we have done a number of proverbs. A number of them

  • came from him. He wrote a collection of Proverbs way back at that time. So this

  • is a really old one ... of proverbs, At that time in history, it used

  • to be a half a loaf is better than no bread. That's the way they used to say it

  • at that time, but it eventually formed into what today we most likely say as a

  • half a loaf is better than none. That's the most common one and you still do

  • here a half a loaf is better than no loaf as well. All right. Let's give a

  • couple of examples here. Example number one. I cannot sell that stock now. I am

  • down 50%. So whatever you invested it in it maybe you already lost 50 percent. So

  • the stock ended up going down. I have to wait until that stock goes up again. Yeah. You

  • hear a lot of people say this. This is another mistake that a lot of people

  • make with stocks. Sometimes they hold on to a loser too long hoping it will go

  • back and then it may even... it may even sink more. So, so be is giving him advice

  • he is saying it is much more likely that company will go bankrupt

  • and the value will go to zero. So you may end up with nothing.

  • Sell now. Half a loaf is better than none. Okay, and number two here. We might...

  • All right. This might be more like a court case with somebody suing. So they're

  • saying that company is only offering half of what we requested to settle out

  • of court. So maybe they're trying to sue somebody.

  • Maybe they ask for I don't know $30,000 or $50,000. The company is willing to offer

  • them half. Settle out of court. We don't go to court. No court fees. Nothing like

  • that. So but maybe the person is not happy. They think they should be able to

  • get the full amount. But B says, I think you should take it.

  • What if you go to court and lose. You know , maybe they got pretty good lawyers.

  • Then you won't get anything. Half a loaf is better than no loaf. So this is

  • exactly how we use it. Okay anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you

  • for your time. Bye-bye.

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