don't spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar

don't spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar proverb don't risk the failure of a large project by trying to economize on trivial things 〈谚〉不要因小失大; 不要捡了芝麻丢了西瓜。 [ORIGIN: referring to the use of tar to keep flies off sores on sheep （from dialect pronunciation of sheep as ship）.]

• assassinator
• criminal
• fork out sth (for/on sth)
• alonenesses
• chain of simplices
• -ice
• commercial rehabilitation
• live one
• school-leaver
• excision
• head tones
• glopping
• intercommunicator
• war risk insurance
• all manner of
• hypotonicities
• residual power
• spitzbergens
• personals
• spurtively
• palazzi
• be at daggers drawn
• explodable
• en brosse
• visiting fireman
• bombinate
• devolatilizing
• Johnson,Samuel
• hesiods
• hyperacid
• pipkin
• Webernesque
• fairy bluebirds
• so-and-sos
• a touch of the sun
• tie hand and foot
• mouthwash
• niceties
• plangency
• eau de Javelle
• Herder, Johann Gottfried von
• St.Helens
• gust load
• stump up sth (for sth)
• hang tough
• phosphatize
• upupidaes
• Dutch pink
• gonapophysis
• left-hand screw
• beveling
• afterbrain
• androdioecious
• echinodermatas
• thick-skulled
• wrap sb (up) in cotton wool
• megacryst
• Taube, Henry
• melancholia
• mechanical stage
• ballistics
• short-day
• Wood,Natalie
• work your fingers to the bone
• encephalographical
• computerphobias
• paleoclimatologists
• executive councils
• pigmentocracies
• Marians
• white pyrite
• sedentariness
• compensation sac
• reconsequent stream
• monosomes
• collapse sink
• peau de crepe
• Towson
• landrails
• gustos
• drowing
• ingestion
• spinelessly
• caprify
• herma
• avaricious
• Digestive glands
• baulk lines
• incentive promotion
• Magelonidae
• prankish
• Proto-Germanic
• torpedo body
• Androbot
• lactic acid bacteria
• dynamic holdup
• preferrers
• servitude
• floorers
• DH bar