vie mennessäs, tuo tullessas

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vie mennessäs, tuo tullessas (literally, “take [with you] as you go, bring as you come [back]”)

  1. if you can do something at once without having to go somewhere else (first), just do it; if you happen to be near to a task, you might as well do it; a proverb about efficiency, of 'killing two birds with one stone'