[Idiom] idiom= shortsightedness , chickening out & taking the easy way out.

[akashnarang]

I've been trying to find an idiom that relates to the following expression:

Settling for the immediate benefit and forgoing a better outcome which required patience ,effort or courage.

The idea to convey is that: You end up settling for less than what you could have got because you couldn't go all the way (and thus harm yourself).

I want to use it in a negative sense.

It touches the themes of : shortsightedness , chickening out & taking the easy way out.


Cheers!

 

[konungursvia]

I've been trying to find an idiom that relates to the following expression:

Settling for the immediate benefit and forgoing a better outcome which required patience ,effort or courage.

The idea to convey is that: You end up settling for less than what you could have got because you couldn't go all the way (and thus harm yourself).

I want to use it in a negative sense.

It touches the themes of : shortsightedness , chickening out & taking the easy way out.

If your audience is familiar with the 44th US president, you could try "pulling a dubya."

 

[riquecohen]

Sometimes half a loaf is better than none.

Modification of post #3. "Dubya" was the 43rd president of the US; Barack Obama is the 44th.

 

[Route21]

I got as far as "dubya" being an acronym for "W" but not what it actually stood for.
In the context, I may well be able to guess the "bya" but the "du" has me beat at the moment.

Regards
R21

 

[5jj]

I got as far as "dubya" being an acronym for "W" but not what it actually stood for.
In the context, I may well be able to guess the "bya" but the "du" has me beat at the moment.

George W (double you) Bush had an interesting way of pronouncing the initial of his middle name.

 

[SoothingDave]

George W (double you) Bush had an interesting way of pronouncing the initial of his middle name.

It's not a personal idiosyncrasy, but a regional Texan pronunciation.

And W did go all the way. It was his father who didn't go to Baghdad and finish the job.

 

[5jj]

I've been trying to find an idiom that relates to the following expression:

Settling for the immediate benefit and forgoing a better outcome which required patience ,effort or courage.

How about, "Discretion is the better part of valour"?