Meaning: One way to stop a cat from scratching furniture is to train it not to do it.
Choice of Words: Training means teaching an animal to behave in a certain way.
Alternative Expressions
Practice makes perfect.
Meaning: This means that if you want to become good at something, you need to keep doing it until you get better at it.
Choice of Words:Practice means to do something over and over again in order to get better at it. Perfect means to be the best that something can be. So when we put these words together, we get the meaning that if you practice something enough, you will eventually become very good at it.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Meaning: This means that it's better to take care of small problems right away, because if you wait, they could become bigger problems that are harder to fix.
Choice of Words:Stitch means to sew something together. Time means a period of duration. Saves means to keep something from being lost or damaged. Nine is a number. So when we put these words together, we get the meaning that if you fix something small now, it will save you from having to fix a bigger problem later.