if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands
if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands traditional response to an over-optimistic conditional expression, in which ands is the plural form of and ‘if’. The saying is recorded from the mid 19th century.
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