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Meaning of 后车之鉴

Lookup via: Pinyin | Radicals
hòu chē zhī jiàn (Trad.: 後車之鑒)
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
Example Sentences
1
Keep in mind the old asying that it is good to learn at another man's cost.
2
In sharp contrast, the newly developed countries of Asia achieved a measure of coherence and progress through policies that violated the conventional wisdom at the time.