A bird in the hand is worth tow in the bush, I never quite understood that phrase. Help?

1: what you have or know is better than something you do not have or know2: keep what you have and don't be greedy for more3: don't risk losing what you have by trying to get more4: Having something for certain is better than the possibility of getting something better5: it is better to have something that is certain than take a risk to get more, where you might lose everythingThey all center around the same idea though. =).

It's better to have something small and real that you can touch. Than an idea of something much bigger, that isn't real.

It means it's better to be satisfied with what you have rather than get greedy and risky and possibly end up with nothing at all. Be happy you have the one bird and don't try to risk that bird for the two in the bush over there. :).

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush refers to the value of something that you have worked hard for which is worth more than double the item if you haven't worked hard to get it. If you take the phrase literally, then a bird in the hand would be a trained bird. It would have had a lot of effort and time taken to get the bird to be tame and to be sitting in your hand.

Where as two birds in the bush would be wild and have little value as they would not sit in your hand and be worth less to you than the tame bird. Therefor take this meaning and look at it in life. For example if you work hard to pay off your car, you will look after it and service it, make sure it always looks clean and tidy.

If you get gifted a car or win it, i. E don't earn it, then you are less likely to look after it because you'll see no hard earned value in it. So something that you have worked hard for is worth more than something that you haven't.

DEFINITION:N: What you HAVE you don't have to worry about. THAT is worth what you may or may not get in the bush. I once caught a small fish,and fish all day and didn't catch another one.

You know what,It was worth the 100 that I didn't catch and I still had a meal.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.