后车之鉴
Traditional form:
後車之鑒
Pinyin (reading):
hòuchēzhījiàn
Definitions:
- lit. warning to the following cart (idiom); don't follow the track of an overturned cart
- fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor
- learn from past mistake
- once bitten twice shy
Characters:
- 后 - after; behind, rear; descendants
- 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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