all's well that ends well

English

Etymology

From the title of William Shakespeare's play All's Well That Ends Well.

Proverb

all's well that ends well

  1. A happy ending makes up for everything that has gone before.[1]

Translations

References
  1. page 344 in The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (2015) by Jennifer Speake
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