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Your interpretation appears to be unique. At quick search shows the common understanding to be about taking responsibility for your work and not blaming your to
by jasonpeacock 3y ago
Your interpretation appears to be unique. At quick search shows the common understanding to be about taking responsibility for your work and not blaming your tools. There's nothing about changing your tools:
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_bad_workman_always_blames_his_tools https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_bad_workman_always_blames_h...
- https://poemanalysis.com/proverb/a-bad-workman-blames-his-tools/ https://poemanalysis.com/proverb/a-bad-workman-blames-his-to...
- https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/a+poor+craftsman+blames+his+tools https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/a+poor+craftsman+blames...
- https://usdictionary.com/idioms/a-bad-workman-blames-his-tools/ https://usdictionary.com/idioms/a-bad-workman-blames-his-too...
- https://writingexplained.org/idiom-dictionary/a-bad-workman-blames-his-tools https://writingexplained.org/idiom-dictionary/a-bad-workman-...
- jimnotgym 3y agoCounter evidence... His interpretation is similar to mine, higher up this thread. It is therefore far from unique. I think it is also not at all unique for scholars to hear a saying and assume a meaning from it, and because they wrote it down on wiktionary it becomes the 'official version'. Whereas my version came from working with other tradesmen for a decade...non of whom were scholars, but were the owners of the culture.