一年被蛇咬十年怕井绳
yī nián bèi shé yǎo shí nián pà jǐng shéng
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1 bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy
一朝被蛇咬,十年怕井绳
yī zhāo bèi shé yǎo , shí nián pà jǐng shéng
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1 once bitten by a snake, ten years in fear of a well rope
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2 once bitten, twice shy (idiom)
以免借口
yǐ miǎn jiè kǒu
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1 to remove sth that could be used as a pretext (idiom)
在所难免
zài suǒ nán miǎn
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1 to be unavoidable (idiom)
未能免俗
wèi néng miǎn sú
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1 unable to break the custom (idiom)
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2 bound by conventions
破财免灾
pò cái miǎn zāi
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1 a financial loss may prevent disaster (idiom)
聪明反被聪明误
cōng míng fǎn bèi cōng míng wù
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1 a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity (idiom); cleverness may overreach itself
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2 too smart for one's own good