"twice" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I'd done it before, and as the old saying goes, once burned, twice shy.
- Once bit, twice shy; especially as your business is known to be patronised by some very shady customers.
- Once burned, twice shy, the old saying went.
- But it is a difficult subject, and anyone who respects its difficulty will be twice shy without waiting to be burned.
- This time around it is a case of 'once bitten, twice shy' and their doubt is not simple but compound.
- After the events from 1917 to 1991, Russians are once bitten, twice shy, when it comes to the collapse of regimes.
- But she had already been bitten once by the demented collie, and so was twice shy.
- "Once burned, twice shy," Hundt said, reflecting about his experience.
- As for women, it was a case of once burned, twice shy.
- Tammad asked, his mind wary with "once bitten, twice shy."
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