事不过三 shìbùguòsān not more than three times Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 事不过三 事不過三 shìbùguòsān not more than three times Used to express that a mistake or an offense should not be repeated more than three times, or that one’s patience for an occurrence is limited. bad things come in threes A proverbial expression suggesting that bad things will not continue to happen more than three times. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.330 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.371 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
事不过三 事不過三 shìbùguòsān not more than three times Used to express that a mistake or an offense should not be repeated more than three times, or that one’s patience for an occurrence is limited. bad things come in threes A proverbial expression suggesting that bad things will not continue to happen more than three times. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.330 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.371 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
