Talk:it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings

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Chinese[edit]

A Mandarin translation might be 好酒沉甕底. --Mat200 23:29, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

They are not the same. One refers to the best being saved for last, the other warns not to be too hasty and to wait until the end to see what the outcome will be. 71.66.97.228 23:53, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alt forms[edit]

I don't know that we want to include every permutation of this phrase, so some of what we've got now needs to be pruned, but ngram makes it clear that the most common written form of the expression is 'it's not over till the fat lady sings'. — LlywelynII 05:16, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]