a watched kettle never boils



a watched kettle never boils

If you are waiting for something to happen, obsessively checking it does not make it happen faster. A variation on the more common phrase, "a watched pot never boils." Would you stop refreshing the page? The results will be posted soon enough, and a watched kettle never boils!
See also: boil, kettle, never, watch

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Mikhailo-Ukrainian
Alonzo-Italian
Maja (2)MIE-ah (German, Polish)Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Slovene, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Czech, Slovak
Chanokh-Biblical Hebrew
Purushottam-Indian, Hindi, Marathi
Ward[wɔ:d]