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you attract more flies with honey than vinegar en · X

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  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
    • You may have gotten attention in high school by being the class heckler, but chances are your semi-rude behavior will not be appreciated by your classmates or your professors. Plus, as the old adage goes, you attract more flies with honey than vinegar. 2009, Jessica Linnell, Off to College: Now What? a Practical Guide to Surviving and Succeeding Your First Year of College, Atlantic Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 164:
    • You attract more flies with honey than vinegar. You resolve more disputes with professionalism and communication than with irritability and vitriol. 2012, Karen Lacey, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Elance, Alpha Books, →ISBN, page 244:
    • She would call her mother in tears, and Mom would comfort and console her, then suggest that Amy simply try to be nicer to Ted: "You attract more flies with honey than vinegar," she would counsel. 1996, Henry Cloud, John Sims Townsend, The Mom Factor, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 110: