前车之鉴 qiánchēzhījiàn lesson from previous failures Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 前车之鉴 前車之鑒 qiánchēzhījiàn variant 前車之鑑 lesson from previous failures (idiom) a warning or lesson drawn from observing previous mistakes or failures; literally "the overturned cart ahead serves as a mirror" Frequency Movie subtitles 0.450 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.12 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
前车之鉴 前車之鑒 qiánchēzhījiàn variant 前車之鑑 lesson from previous failures (idiom) a warning or lesson drawn from observing previous mistakes or failures; literally "the overturned cart ahead serves as a mirror" Frequency Movie subtitles 0.450 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.12 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)