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Originally Posted by platinum  What is the difference between "better safe than sorry" and "prevention is better than cure"?
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BTW, the 'better
X than
Y' format is used in other idiomatic phrases:
Better red than dead [It's better to pretend to accept Communism than to die opposing it]
Better late than never [It's better for someone to arrive late than not to arrive at all]
....And it's a productive format for the coining of new phrases - so there isn't a "list" of such phrases - or if there is, it's already out of date!
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