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词汇 stick to your knitting
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Idiom
stick to your knittingstick to (your) knitting
if a person or company sticks to their knitting, they continue to do what they have always done instead of trying to do something they know very little about.
He believes the key to a company's success is to stick to its knitting rather than trying to diversify.
idiomstick to your knittingto keep doing the thing that you do best, without trying to do other things that you might not do so well:We stuck to our knitting during the 1980s, and didn't get involved in financial speculation with the result that the firm is stable - no loans, no lawsuits, no stories about us in the papers.Stick to your knitting - identify what your company does best and make sure that you keep on doing it.

stick to (one's) knitting

1. To mind one's own business. Oh, stick to your knitting—I don't need to hear your opinion of every little thing I do.
2. To do only what one knows or is familiar with. You can't just stick to your knitting—you have to try new things too.

stick to your knitting

If someone, especially a company or organization, sticks to their knitting, they continue to do something that they are experienced at and do not try to do something different about which they know very little. It failed because we did not understand the plumbing business, and it taught us a lesson about sticking to our knitting! Northern Rock is sticking to its knitting — mortgages and savings.
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