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前车可鉴
qián​chē​kě​jiàn

to learn from past mistakes

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前车可鉴 前車可鑒 qián​chē​kě​jiàn
to learn from past mistakes
(idiom) to take a past failure as a lesson or warning for the future; literally "the cart in front is a mirror"

Frequency

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Cross-References

Synonym

  • 前车之鉴 qián​chē​zhī​jiàn

Sources

Frequency data
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