Many hands make light work: Daily Vocabulary

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Many hands make light work
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Today's vocabulary is a proverb. A proverb is a wise saying which gives you advice about how to live your life. Today's proverb is: Many hands make light work. So, hands, these are hands of course. In the proverb, hands symbolizes people,  so many hands means many people. Light work, light in this case means easy or not difficult. So many hands make light work means if there's many people, the work is easy. Or it can mean a job may seem very difficult at first, but if you divide the job up among many people, then it becomes much easier.
For example imagine this conversation:
“Oh no, there's too much work. I'll never be able to do it all.”
“Don't worry. Everyone will help and then the work won't be so much. You know what they say: many hands make light work.”
Many hands make light work is probably the most common form of this proverb. Occasionally you may hear a variant: Many hands make work light. So instead of light work it becomes work light. Either way is okay.
So let me know whether you agree or disagree with this proverb, and also let me know if you have any other similar proverbs in your own language.