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English
Pronunciation
Verb
look before one leaps (third-person singular simple present looks before one leaps, present participle looking before one leaps, simple past and past participle looked before one leaped or looked before one leapt)
- (idiomatic) To think before taking action.
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think before taking action
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 三思而行 (saam3 si1 ji4 hang4)
- Mandarin: 三思而後行／三思而后行 (zh) (sānsī ér hòuxíng), 三思而行 (zh) (sānsī'érxíng)
- Czech: dvakrát měř, jednou řež (cs)
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: bezint eer ge begint, bezint eer gij begint
- Finnish: parempi katsoa kuin katua
- French: réfléchir avant d’agir
- German: erst wägen, dann wagen
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: először gondolkodj, aztán cselekedj
- Italian: medita prima di agire
- Japanese: 転ばぬ先の杖 (ja) (ころばぬさきのつえ, korobanu saki no tsue)
- Korean: 누울 자리 봐 가며 발을 뻗어라 (ko) (nuul jari bwa gamyeo bareul ppeodeora)
- Malay: dengar cakap enggang, makan buah beluluk; dengar cakap orang, terjun masuk lubuk
- Polish: pomyśleć, zanim zadziałać
- Portuguese: olhar antes de saltar
- Russian: семь раз отме́рь, оди́н отре́жь (semʹ raz otmérʹ, odín otréžʹ), не зна́я бро́ду, не су́йся в во́ду (ru) (ne znája bródu, ne sújsja v vódu), поспеши́шь - люде́й насмеши́шь (pospešíšʹ - ljudéj nasmešíšʹ)
- Slovak: dvakrát meraj, raz rež
- Somali: inta aanad falin ka fiirso
- Spanish: antes que te cases, mira lo que haces
- Swedish: titta innan du hoppar
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
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