stitch Идиома

a stitch in time saves nine

a small repair may prevent a large repair I believe in maintenance. A stitch in time saves nine.

a stitch of clothes

(See didn't have a stitch of clothes on)

didn't have a stitch of clothes on

naked, nude, birthday suit, in the buff When the kids go swimming they don't have a stitch of clothes on.

in stitches

laughing They were in stitches over their teacher

stitch in time

(See a stitch in time)

stitch of clothes on

(See didn't have a stitch of clothes on)

without a stitch of clothes on

nude, naked as a jay bird, didn't have a stitch of clothes on She stood there, ankle deep in water, without a stitch of clothes on.

keep sb in stitches

Idiom(s): keep sb in stitches

Theme: LAUGHTER

to cause someone to laugh loud and hard, over and over. (Informal. Also with have.)
• The comedian kept us in stitches for nearly an hour.
• The teacher kept the class in stitches, but the students didn't learn anything.
• She had us in stitches for ten minutes.

A stitch in time saves nine.

It's better to deal with a problem at an early stage, to prevent it from getting worse.

Stitch in time saves nine

A stitch in time saves nine means that if a job needs doing it is better to do it now, because it will only get worse, like a hole in clothes that requires stitching.

in stitches|stitches

adj. phr., informal Laughing so hard that the sides ache; in a fit of laughing hard. The comedian was so funny that he had everyone who was watching him in stitches.

stitch

stitch
In addition to the idiom beginning with stitch, also see in stitches; without a stitch on.

stitch in time, a

stitch in time, a
A prompt action will avert more serious trouble. For example, Changing the car's oil every 7,000 miles is a stitch in time. The complete form of this adage, a stitch in time saves nine, appeared in Thomas Fuller's 1732 proverb collection, Gnomologia, and is so well known that it often is stated in shortened form. Ogden Nash played with it in the title for his verse collection, A Stitch Too Late Is My Fate (1938).

without a stitch on

without a stitch on
Naked, as in They let their baby run around outside without a stitch on. A related phrase is not have a stitch on. These expressions use stitch in the sense of “a piece of clothing,” a usage dating from the early 1800s.