騎者善墮
qí​zhě​shàn​duò

skillful riders often fall

  • created sense approved 骑者善堕/騎者善墮 · qí​zhě​shàn​duò · skillful riders often fall — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    骑者善堕 / 騎者善墮

    qí​zhě​shàn​duò

    skillful riders often fall

    Literary idiom meaning that those who are skilled in something often become overconfident or careless, leading to failure; analogous to "pride comes before a fall".

    骑 (literal) → 骑/騎 · qí · to ride 者 (bound) → 者 · zhě · -er 善 (literal) → 善 · shàn · prone to 堕 (literal) → 堕/墮 · duò · to fall

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense