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  Those who know that something is coming are better prepared to face it than those who do not know.
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  Knowledge in advance enables one to be prepared, as in Let me know when he's in town so I can take the phone off the hook—forewarned is forearmed. This expression originated as a Latin proverb, Praemonitus, praemunitus, which was translated into English by the early 1500s. It soon was put to broader use than its original military applications.

Forewarned is forearmed

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1. Those who know that something is coming are better prepared to face it than those who do not know.

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forewarned is forearmed Idioms  

1. Knowledge in advance enables one to be prepared, as in Let me know when he's in town so I can take the phone off the hook—forewarned is forearmed. This expression originated as a Latin proverb, Praemonitus, praemunitus, which was translated into English by the early 1500s. It soon was put to broader use than its original military applications.

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Forewarned is forearmed, unless you believe the rules of public propriety are only for others.

From Time Magazine Archive

Forewarned is forearmed; and this fact alone prevented the Germans from carrying out their designs.

From The Boy Allies at Jutland by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

"Forewarned is forearmed" is an old saying, and now I applied it to myself.

From True to Himself : or Roger Strong's Struggle for Place by Edward Stratemeyer

Forewarned is forearmed; you would have known how to safeguard her.

From The Keeper of the Door by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

"Forewarned is forearmed," thought St. Cuthman, and hies him to sister Celia, superior of a convent which then stood on the spot of the present Dyke House.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

When it comes to tick-borne illness, forewarned is forearmed.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 7, 2022

The picture of aging and loss isn't pretty, but forewarned is forearmed.

From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2017

It is, says Shimizu, a case of forewarned is forearmed.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2014

But look here, you are a brave girl, and forewarned is forearmed, you know, so I am going to speak quite plainly.

From Life on the Stage by Clara Morris

But forewarned is forearmed, Gurney; and I would take precious good care not to be caught napping.

From Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship by W. Herbert Holloway

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