What is the meaning of 'a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush'?

Answer 1

Do you mean:
A Short story about a bird in the hand is worth two in bush?

so do you mean tell me a short story explaining the meaning of the saying?
tell me an example of this saying in action?
do you mean whats the meaning of the saying?

ill try to answer all of them:

Meaning

It's better to have a small actual advantage than the chance of a greater one.
here is the saying used in a lyric:
Gay Strephon declares I'm the girl in his mind,
If he proves sincere, I'll be constant and kind,
He vows that tomorrow he'll make me his wife,
I'll fondly endeavour to bless him for life,
For all other fwains I care not a rush,
One bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Example: "Dan has asked me to go to a party with him. What if my boyfriend finds out? I don't know if I should go." Reply: "Don't go. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."

The thing that you already have is a bird in the hand; the things you want but don't have are two (birds) in the bush. You should not risk losing what you have by trying to get something that you don't have. Example: "I've been offered $250 for my stereo. Should I take it, or wait for a better offer?" Reply: "Take the $250. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."

Answer 2

Meaning It's better to have a small real advantage than the possibility of a greater one. It means that it's better to have a thing of lesser value in reality than it is to have something of greater value in theory. For example, it's better to work at a modest job to make a living, than to wait unemployed for someone to offer you a high-paying one (an offer that might never materialize).

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"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is a proverb about risk or greed. It means that it is better to have something, for certain, than to take a risk to get more, with the possibility that you get nothing at all. Don't abandon something valuable you already have, in the risky hopes of getting something better.

Example: If you're hunting turkeys, and one walks right up and lets you pick it up, don't drop it and run over to a bush because you hear 2 turkeys in the bush. Yes, 2 is better than 1, but you might end up losing all 3 turkeys. Value what you have more than what you think you can get.

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It suggests that you shouldn't give up something you currently have for the possibility that you may be able to get something else, even if the other thing is somewhat better than the thing you have. If you have a bird (the "bird in the hand"), you shouldn't let it go in order to try to catch birds in the bush, because (the aphorism implies) you are not sure to catch the birds in the bush, thus possibly ending up with no birds rather than the one you already have.

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Contrary aphorisms

These include "Nothing ventured, nothing gained" and "Risk little, gain little," which suggest that, although taking a risk may not pay off, the possibility of a good payoff justifies the potential loss you may suffer if the risk doesn't pay off.

Answer 3

Although Bill might have found neighbors to pay him more to mow their lawns, he took the ten dollars his father offered because a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Answer 4

it is a edomatic expressions