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Time and Tide Wait for No Man… Is it the “tides” or “noontide”?

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Time and Tide Wait for No Man… Is it the “tides” or “noontide”?
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Back in July I wrote a post about the proverb “Time and Tide Wait for No Man“. MC commented, “It has nothing to do with the sea, it’s ‘tide’ as in ‘noontide’.” Noontide means noon or midday. I still think it has to do with the tides. Answers.com agrees: “This proverbial phrase, alluding to the fact that human events or concerns cannot stop the passage of time or the movement of the tides, first appeared about 1395 in Chaucer’s Prologue to the Clerk’s Tale.”

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