Meanings
- The consideration of other events can greatly influence some desired outcome (such as whether a joke is well received).
- Telling the old joke about a butt-crack was not a good idea, just as the plumber arrived, Bob. - You know what they say: "timing is everything." I'm sure we can find another plumber before the house floods.
3 more examples
“Timing Is Everything”. It certainly has been true in my life and chances are it's probably played a role in your life as well. As I look back there were moments where I missed out on something special because I either made the wrong ...
2015, Rob Couty, Timing Is Everything!: Joining The Right Company At The Right Time!, Rob CoutySo when I'd hear people tell me – in many contexts – that timing is everything, I'd naturally feel uncomfortably constrained. Choked sometimes. Because I knew that I personally possessed virtually no sense of timing in the clock sense of time.
2017, Janice Presser, Timing Isn't Everything. Teaming Is., Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 35... partnership in the new forest policy was one ingredient; but it was the pressing demands on government forestry from an increasingly vocal civil society – that brought a hesitant. Forestry tactics 9 Why now? Why this way? Timing is everything.
2001, Forestry Tactics: Lessons from Malawi's National Forestry Programme, IIED, →ISBN, page 9
Translations
Danish timing er alt
- timing er altconsideration of events can influence the outcome
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timing is everything. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/timing%20is%20everything
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