proverb · Source-linked selection
Look to the cow, and the sow, and the wheat mow, and all will be well enow.
Look to the cow, and the sow, and the wheat mow, and all will be well enow.
Historical period not yet established
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Meaning in plain English
The saying makes attention to livestock and stored grain the basis of enough provision. It names specific household resources rather than relying on a general wish for prosperity.
What the words are saying
Cow, sow and wheat mow make the instruction concrete: look after the things imagined to sustain the household. As an explicit analogy, maintaining useful resources can matter more than seeking a new benefit. All will be well remains an optimistic promise, not an established guarantee; careful work cannot remove every uncertainty.
Everyday example
A community checks and maintains the resources it already relies on instead of focusing only on acquiring new ones.
When to use it
Use it as an analogy about care for existing provision.
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What it does not mean
The promise is not a farming plan or a guarantee against hardship.
Agent-assisted editorial interpretation. This explains the words; it does not by itself verify their author or earliest origin.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Traditional
Attribution: traditional - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- Historical period not yet established
No sufficiently supported historical placement has been established. Import and download dates are not treated as composition dates. - Recorded source
- A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
Entry 340 · Cow
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