前车之鉴
Traditional form:
前車之鑑
Pinyin (reading):
qiánchēzhījiàn
Definitions:
- lit. a warning taken from the overturned cart ahead (idiom)
- fig. lesson learned by observing others' failures
Characters:
- 前 - in front, forward; former, preceding
- 车 - cart, vehicle; to move in a cart
- 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
- 鉴 - mirror, looking glass; to reflect
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