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n. (context idiomatic English) (non-gloss definition: A proverbial expression used to signify the futility of making detailed plans when the ability to fully or even partially execute them is uncertain.)
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Best Laid Plans is a 1999 American crime film directed by Mike Barker.
Best Laid Plans is a studio album from Sandra McCracken, recorded in late 2003 with engineer, Ray Kennedy (Twang Trust) and Peter Collins.
In the summer of 2004, Sandra signed the album to Shell Records in London. Shell released the album in the UK, followed by two radio singles, Last Goodbye and No More Tears, which received significant airplay and attention across England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
Best Laid Plans may refer to:
- Best Laid Plans (1999 film), a film starring Reese Witherspoon
- Best Laid Plans (2012 film), a British film based on Of Mice and Men
- Best Laid Plans (Sandra McCracken album)
- Best Laid Plans (David Torn album)
- Best Laid Plans (sitcom), web series
- "Best Laid Plans" (The Unit), an episode of The Unit
- The Best Laid Plans, a 1997 novel by Sidney Sheldon
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The Best Laid Plans, a 2008 novel by Terry Fallis
- The Best Laid Plans (TV series), a Canadian television sitcom based on the Fallis novel
- " Best Laid Plans", a comic book story
- "The Best Laid Plans" (Three's Company), 1979
- "Best Laid Plans" (Once Upon a Time), an episode from the fourth season of the TV series Once Upon a Time
Best Laid Plans is a completely improvised sitcom produced by New Renaissance Pictures. The show is produced without a script thanks to an ensemble cast of improv performers that includes Jesse GrothOlson and Joshua Adam Snyder. The focus is on a group of close friends who are constantly devising new schemes to get rich or "just get by." Many episodes focus on the various relationships these friends find themselves in. Executive Producer Joshua Sikora was inspired to create the show after working with improv performers on previous productions.
Best Laid Plans is the debut album by guitarist David Torn recorded in 1984 and released on the ECM label.
Best Laid Plans is a 2012 British drama film directed by David Blair and produced by Michael Knowles for Made Up North Productions Limited. The film was released to select cinemas on 3 February 2012 and is loosely based on John Steinbeck's book, Of Mice and Men.
"Best Laid Plans" is the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of the American fantasy drama series Once Upon a Time, which aired on March 29, 2015.
In this episode David Nolan and Mary Margaret tell Emma Swan the secret they have been keeping from her; and Regina is found out by Mr. Gold, Maleficent, and Cruella, while flashbacks show Snow White and Prince Charming's past with the Apprentice.
Usage examples of "best laid plans".
The difficulties that everywhere had been cropping up in even the best laid plans of men, the inexplicable yet Somehow inevitable failure that seemed built into their manifold schemes, were sharpest in the City, and caused the greatest pain and anger there--the fixed anger Smoky hadn't seen but which Auberon saw in nearly every City face he looked into.
If the weather worsens, or even continues like this, the best laid plans of the High Command could well go wrong.
The force at his disposal was never strong enough to do anything against the vastly superior armies of the Duke of Parma, who was one of the most brilliant generals of his age, while he was hampered and thwarted by the intrigues and duplicity of Elizabeth, who was constantly engaged in half hearted negotiations now with France and now with Spain, and whose capricious temper was continually overthrowing the best laid plans of her councillors and paralysing the actions of her commanders.