Would have been better if they hadn't bungled their mixed metonymy...
It's a stitch in the bird is worth a pound of eggs off a duck's back, as everyone knows...*
* Courtesy of the excellent "Field Guide of Egregious Mixed Metonomies", soon to be published by Penguin Random House Simon Schuster Merriam Webster Britannica, I'm told
>@mori@mastodon.au @wikipedia And yet, the Ship of Theseus page remains, thus proving a bird in the hand is worth two stitches in time.