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Home / about good luck / Strike while you’re ahead
Posted on November 10, 2006 April 14, 2017

Strike while you’re ahead

Mix up of:

  1. Strike while the iron’s hot, and
  2. Quit while you’re ahead.

From a pub in Ealing, submitted by Sandrine.

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