There may be blue and better blue.

[keannu]

The Korean counterpart of this saying is "There's a flying guy over a running guy" to mean "Even if something is good, inevitably, there's always a better thing than that." Does this English saying have the same nuance?

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ex)There may be blue and better blue.

 

[Barb_D]

I have never seen this expression and I would not understand the intended meaning.

 

[keannu]

You mean "There may be.." or "There's a flying...". The latter is surely not comprehensible for Americans, but the former is natural English, isn't it?

 

[5jj]

I have never seen the expression "There may be blue and better blue", and I would not understand the intended meaning.

 

[keannu]

It's listed in naver.com dicitionary There may be blue and better blue. ::.

It says it's a western saying, and if their listing is wrong, do you know any other similar saying to mean ""Even if something is good, inevitably, there's always a better thing than that."?

 

[5jj]

It's listed in naver.com dicitionary There may be blue and better blue. ::.

It's also listed here. I (British) have still never heard of it, and neither has Barb (American). Perhaps others will write in to say that Barb and I must live very sheltered lives and that most people drop those words into conversation every day.

 

[Tdol]

I can add a sheltered Brit to the list. ;-)

 

[JMurray]

I can report from my shelter down-under that I have never heard the expression.