cos escarmentados fanse os avisados

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Galician

Etymology

Attested in Old Galician-Portuguese (13th century) as dos escarmentados se fazen mais ardeiros.

Proverb

cos escarmentados fanse os avisados

  1. a burnt child dreads the fire; once bitten, twice shy
    • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 325:
      dyz o prouerbio antigo que dos escarmentados sse fazẽ os arteyros
      an ancient proverb says that of the ones that have suffered damage come the wary ones

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