to do things right/correctly/the way they are
supposed to be done/ when they they are supposed to be done
the first time around, so as to avoid either having to redo the same job twice or suffering other unpleasant
consequences (such as literally not paying your actual bills on time and having to pay late fees).
son (crying, with a piece of ungraded homework in his hands) Dad, why the hell is this
composition of mine on
The Great War not even graded? And why did
the teacher just shove it back in my face with out even bothering to look at it.
Father: listen, Carl. If I'd be your teacher, i would have reacted the exact same way. Just look at your penmanship. Ca laisse a desirer. I can't even , lol, call it handwriting, it would probably, immb qualify as turkey-chicken scrawl. Now the moral of the fable is of course to pay your bills on time. Now, take this travail bacle afaap out of my line of site and rewrite your homework.