WATCHED POT NEVER BOILS


Meaning of WATCHED POT NEVER BOILS in English

If you watch or wait for something to get done or to happen, it seems to take forever. A proverb. Jane was nine months pregnant and Tom hovered over her anxiously. She said, "You might as well go away and play some golf. A watched pot never boils, you know!"

American idioms English vocabulary.      Английский словарь американских идиом.