Practice makes perfect
Doing something over and over makes one better at it.
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Idioms and Phrases with practice makes perfect
practice makes perfect
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.
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