sooner the better, the

As quickly or early as possible, as in As for stopping that check, the sooner the better. This idiom was first recorded in 1477.

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Nearby words

sool, soon, sooner, sooner or later, sooner state, sooner the better, the, soonest, soong, soony, soot, sooth

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