once bitten, twice shy
US /wʌns ˈbɪtn ˌtwaɪs ʃaɪ/
・UK /wʌns ˈbɪtn ˌtwaɪs ʃaɪ/
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After getting scammed, he’s now careful—once bitten, twice shy.
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10 Darling IDIOMS ☺️??️for daily natural speech ?| British English ?? | British Culture ??
- Number three, once bitten twice shy. Once bitten twice shy. Can you get the meaning from this?
- It's a really good idiom for when you want to learn from your mistakes. So if you're bitten, it means you've had a bad experience doing something and then you will be twice shy, meaning you learn from that mistake and you don't do it again. This has connotations of life lessons, wisdom, experience. It's a great one for personal development. Now the example I'm going to give for this is actually quite funny because it's actually actually about being bitten. So my sister has been unlucky enough to have been bitten by a few dogs in her life. I've never been bitten by a dog, she has three times. And now every time she sees a dog, you know, coming towards her, she's she's a bit kind of on edge. And if you're on edge, by the way, you're just a bit tense and nervous. So that's an actual example of once bitten twice shy. Sorry, way too obvious. It just came to my mind, you know. But generally in life, we should learn from our mistakes. And you know, life is a journey where you develop as you go along and you learn and you know, you get better and better and better. You don't have to start off being the best. You can eventually be the best version of yourself. Number four, to have a bee in your bonnet. To have a bee in your bonnet.