Cutteth off the feet. — He wants his business done, but if he sends a fool to do it, he might as well cut off his messenger’s legs, for the business will not be transacted; nay, worse than this, he will “drink damage,” i.e., suffer positive mischief from the blundering of his emissary.
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Proverbs 26:6
6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.b