Page 4 2025 Spring Home and Garden LINCOLN DAILY NEWS April 2025 “The best laid plans of mice and men” paraphrased from the poem “The Mouse” by Robert Burns are words I often mutter when one of my carefully planned projects goes completely awry. “Threw a wrench in the works,” an idiom that tracks back to the industrialist era where machines were experimental and often broken intentionally by workers recognizing that automation would replace manpower, is the phrase I use to explain why my plan did not work out as expected. Continued -- The best laid plans of mice and men
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