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the tooter the sweeter en · ADV

Etymology

From toot sweet, a phonetic rendering of French tout de suite (“immediately”) into English-looking words, then jokingly treated as two English adverbs that can be used in comparative forms.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) the sooner the better (it is better if something happens or is done soon)