Read Edit View history 事不过三 shìbùguòsān not more than three times Origin Definitions Defs 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)