the tooter the sweeter

English

Etymology

From toot sweet, a phonetic rendering of French tout de suite (“immediately”) into English-looking words, then jokingly treated as two English adverbs that can be used in comparative forms.

Adverb

the tooter the sweeter (not comparable)

  1. the sooner the better (it is better if something happens or is done soon)
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