first catch your hare Definition

hare
noun

1. A herbivorous mammal like a rabbit but slightly larger and with longer legs and ears, which lives in a form (noun 12) and whose young are called leverets.

verb

intr
hared, haring
1. colloq
To run very fast or wildly.
Form: hare off (often)
Form: hare after something

Derivative: harelike
adj

Idiom: first catch your hare

Make sure you have a thing first before you decide what to do with it.

Idiom: raise a hare (start a hare)

To introduce a topic of conversation, line of inquiry, etc.

Idiom: run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

To be on good terms with both sides at the same time.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon hara.