OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 29176

strike while the iron is hot

Meanings (ES + gloss)
al hierro caliente batir de repente • batir el hierro cuando está al rojo
To act on an opportunity promptly while favorable conditions exist; to avoid waiting.
The Gap thus stopp'd, with her Army she marcheth to the Cage that kept those Birds, whose Wings she would be clipping. She knew if she struck not while the Iron was hot, the heat o…
We should strike while the iron is hot and order some immediately, before they change the offer.
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