We tell each other with a knowing look: if it ain't broke don't fix it.

BBC: Change America can believe in

"We have a saying in the southern United States: 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it, '" he says.

BBC: Inauguration Day: Unclear strategy for an Obama legacy

SBC's advice: If it ain't broke, don't fix it, because invasive inspections of healthy turbines actually increases the risks of damage.

FORBES: Energy

The local feeling is very strongly anti any change in ownership or management, on the basis of 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'.

BBC: Survey finds opposition to privatisation of forests

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

CNN: Doug Gross,

Mr. HENDRICKS: If it ain't broke why fix it, and also, like, if you're handicapping this, and you're sort of betting on whose going to end up the winner, I mean my money's still on Fair Isaac right now.

NPR: Credit-Reporting Agencies Create New Scoring Format

As American lines like Bonobos, Band of Outsiders and Freemans Sporting Club have adapted the traditional tailoring of their storied U.K. counterparts to suit modern tastes ("if it ain't broke we'll nip it"), at London's custom houses, even a stitching tweak would be perceived as mutinous a decade ago.

WSJ: The British Are Coming!

Quite sensibly, it has taken the view that if ever there were a case where "if ain't broke, don't fix it" applied, it's here.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The UN-internet

Hey, if the system ain't broke, why fix it?

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