Practice makes perfect

1. Doing something over and over makes one better at it.

Idioms and Phrases

Frequently doing something makes one better at doing it, as in I've knit at least a hundred sweaters, but in my case practice hasn't made perfect . This proverbial expression was once put as Use makes mastery , but by 1560 the present form had become established.

Example Sentences

For Ebola care, as with all other things, it is likely that practice makes perfect—and that only perfect is good enough.

From The Daily Beast

With an endless number of ways to prepare cold sesame noodles, practice makes perfect—and makes for the perfect meal.

From The Daily Beast

Practice makes perfect, for I spoke to them more or less in fluent French!

From Project Gutenberg

The rainy season here lasts all the year round; and if practice makes perfect—There, now I 'm wet through, I can't be worse.

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But the voice is not invariably subject to the law that practice makes perfect.

From Project Gutenberg

Psychological principles verify the proverb that practice makes perfect.

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But "practice makes perfect," they say, so I still persevere, hoping that it may come right some day.

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