Many hands make light work

Cultural  

1. Large tasks become small when divided among several people.

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many hands make light work Idioms  

1. More helpers make a task easier, as in We need a few more volunteers to move the furniture—many hands make light work, you know. This proverb was first recorded in English in the early 1300s in a knightly romance known as Sir Bevis of Hampton. It appeared in practically all proverb collections from 1546 on. For the converse, see too many cooks spoil the broth.

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Example Sentences

At home, they’re often made over the holidays, as many hands make light work.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2021

I’ve learned that I always create a club or a family around me, because I understand so well the precept that many hands make light work.

From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2017

On assembly lines and at construction sites, in offices and around operating tables, many hands make light work.

From Time Magazine Archive

If a housekeeper can secure the cooperation of all her family, she will find, that "many hands make light work."

From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther

It was a large bird, but many hands make light work; that is, as far as getting the feathers off the goose was concerned.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)