marry in haste, repent at leisure
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› This means that if you marry someone without knowing them well, later you will feel sorry that you married them.Marriage, cohabitation and other relationships
(Definition of marry in haste, repent at leisure from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- adulteress noun
- as husband and wife idiom
- be an item idiom
- be shacked up idiom
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