sooner
sooner the sooner begun, the sooner done proverbial saying, late 16th century; used as a warning against putting off a necessary but unwanted task.
Sooner State informal name for Oklahoma. Sooner here is in the sense ‘one who acts prematurely’, i.e. a person who tried to get into the frontier territory of Oklahoma before the US government opened it to settlers in 1889.
Sooner State informal name for Oklahoma. Sooner here is in the sense ‘one who acts prematurely’, i.e. a person who tried to get into the frontier territory of Oklahoma before the US government opened it to settlers in 1889.
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