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Dear /lit/, please help a Dutchbro find the right proverb. I will have to give a presentation about a social enterprise and I want to express that they are the very first ones to take the leap. How would a native speaker express that with an official proverb?
In my language, we would say "when the first sheep crosses the "dam" (passage/small bridge), the rest will follow.

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>>7836287
Early bird catches the worm
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>>7836294
Thanks for replying, it's a 9/10
Do you perhaps know of something similar, which relates to others following?
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>>7836319
you snooze you lose
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I'm trying to think if we have a proverb for that. We sometimes say someone is 'blazing a trail' but that doesn't really carry a connotation of "others will follow and you will be rewarded."
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