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proverb
Make sure you have a thing before you decide what to do with it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Supposedly from an error in The Art of Cookery by Hannah Glasse, where "catch" should have read "case" (i.e. remove the skin); however, this is apocryphal.
