soft fire makes sweet malt
soft fire makes sweet malt
proverb One's impatience can ultimately ruin a project. When malt is prepared, it is burned, but if it is burned too much, it will not have its desired sweetness. You keep messing up your drawing because you are rushing—soft fire makes sweet malt, after all.
See also: fire, make, soft, sweet
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- crisp
- be burnt to a crisp
- burn away
- go to the stake for
- go to the stake for (something)
- teach a man to fish
- take time out
- it takes a village
- village
- burn (one) out of (something)