Short-sighted economy

Motif

Short-sighted economy.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Other short-sighted acts. · view the constellation · filed as J2199.4

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Filed under Absurd shortsightedness – miscellaneous.

1 finer motif beneath it

Numskull is glad to hurt his feet instead of his shoes

Filed beside it

Alarm sounded foolishly Persons build a wheelbarrow too large to come out of shed Nine men try to lift bull over the fence. One gets the idea of taking it through the gate. (Cf. J2171.6.)

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