Idiom of the Day

🇬🇧another string to your bow

✍🏾Meaning: If you have another string to your bow, you have another way of making a living.

❕For example:

🔺Lots of people learn to teach English so they'll have another string to their bow.

🔺I've lost my job and I'll have to retrain for something else. I wish I already had another string to my bow.

➕Origin: Probably metaphorical, from the fact that if an archer has a spare string for their bow, they can still shoot an arrow even if their first string breaks.

📌Variety: This idiom is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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