Meaning
'Hurry hurry mek bad curry' — haste makes waste; rush a job and you spoil it. Just as a good curry needs time to cook down and let its flavours blend and deepen, so does anything worth doing; hurry it, and the result is 'bad curry', botched and half-done. A neat, rhyming reminder to take your time and do things properly, it turns the plain truth of the kitchen into everyday wisdom, warning that the thing rushed is the thing ruined, and that patience and care make the difference between a fine result and a poor one.
Examples
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Nuh rush di work — hurry hurry mek bad curry.
Don't rush the work — haste makes waste.
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Tek yuh time an do it right; hurry hurry mek bad curry.
Take your time and do it right; rushing spoils it.
Origin
A traditional rhyming proverb; a rushed curry cooks badly. See [[tek-time]], [[patience-man-ride-donkey]].
How it’s used
Haste makes waste; take your time. See [[tek-time]], [[patience-man-ride-donkey]].