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Phrase(s): If you would be well served, serve yourself.
Prov. You should do things for yourself, since you cannot trust other people to do them exactly the way you want. • I would never hire a maid, because a maid wouldn’t clean things the way I want them cleaned. Like they say: if you would be well served, serve yourself.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs