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Thesaurus: make the perfect the enemy of the good
make the perfect the enemy of the good (see inflections of make) (intransitive) To reject or bar improvement because it is incomplete.
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- make the perfect the enemy of the good (see inflections of make) (intransitive) To reject or bar improvement because it is incomplete.