All For Want Of A Nail
For want of a nail.
All for want of a nail. The point here is that while the nail is truly important the apprentice who is in training to properly shoe. The want of a single nail may not appear significant until it causes a horse to throw a shoe and become disabled. A number of historians think that the original poem may refer to the death of richard iii of england at the battle of bosworth field.
For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost. A deal with the devil will often have the nail as a price something of seemingly small consequence that is in fact huge. For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
The words of this meaningful say can teach our children the simple fact that each of our actions no matter how unimportant we think they are will have a consequence. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. In a series of disaster dominoes the first domino often falls when the nail that props it up suddenly goes missing.
The minor issue escalates and compounds itself into a major issue. For want of a battle the kingdom was lost. Sometimes something such insignificant like a nail could cause such a big trouble like the loss of a kingdom.
For want of a rider the message was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail the story describes how a seemingly inconsequential detail can lead to a disaster. For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
So a kingdom was lost all for want of a nail. The full proverb is for want of a nail the shoe was lost. Anon anon is short for anonymous.