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!"/

Dictionary of English idioms .      Словарь английских идиом.