the jug goes to the well until it breaks

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the jug goes to the well until it breaks

  1. Even though something can be used, it may contain flaws that will lead it to ultimately fail.
    • 2009, Franz Knoll, Thomas Vogel, Design for Robustness, →ISBN, page 78:
      The jug goes to the well until it breaks” – this may not be so terrible involving a jug – translated to the failure of a scaffolding assembly, it may, however, involve loss of life.
    • 2013, Hubert Kennedy -, The Ideal Gay Man: The Story of Der Kreis, →ISBN, page 197:
      It was not the mother herself, but good neighbor women who uncovered the danger. And as always in such cases: the jug goes to the well until it breaks! The court sentenced the man to two years in a penitentiary, five years loss of civic right, and expulsion from this country for ten years, although he had not previously been sentenced.
    • 2015, Hermann Kauders, And God Created Bedbugs Too, →ISBN:
      The jug goes to the well until it breaks,” said Xandi. Brigitte frequently quoted the saying when confronted by her boys' obstinacy.

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