you can't be a little bit pregnant

you can't be a little bit pregnant

proverb This is a situation that requires a complete and utter commitment or total involvement. If we choose to break off from the company and establish our own firm, then that's what we have to commit to—you can't be a little bit pregnant, you understand?
See also: bit, little, pregnant
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • it takes a village
  • village
  • teach a man to fish
  • change horses in midstream, don't
  • burnt
  • a burnt child dreads the fire
  • best-laid plans go astray, the
  • the best-laid plans
  • the best-laid plans go astray
  • the best-laid plans of mice and men
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A home test works for something like pregnancy because you can't be a little bit pregnant. Either you are pregnant or you aren't.
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