qián​chē​zhī​jiàn

lesson from previous failures

前车之鉴 前車之鑒 qián​chē​zhī​jiàn
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"

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0.450 per million appears in 0% of films
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1.12 per million

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