Meaning of timing is everything | Babel Free

Definitions

Consideration of other events can greatly influence some desired outcome (such as whether a joke is well received).

Examples

“- Telling the old joke about a butt-crack was not a good idea, just as the plumber arrived, Bob. - You know what they say: "timing is everything." I'm sure we can find another plumber before the house floods.”

““Timing Is Everything”. It certainly has been true in my life and chances are it's probably played a role in your life as well. As I look back there were moments where I missed out on something special because I either made the wrong ...”

“So when I'd hear people tell me – in many contexts – that timing is everything, I'd naturally feel uncomfortably constrained. Choked sometimes. Because I knew that I personally possessed virtually no sense of timing in the clock sense of time.”

“... partnership in the new forest policy was one ingredient; but it was the pressing demands on government forestry from an increasingly vocal civil society – that brought a hesitant. Forestry tactics 9 Why now? Why this way? Timing is everything.”

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