2006-09-28 21:12:14 · 9 answers · asked by W0LF 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
It means if u make a mistake u don't go and make it again. It could also mean tht if somone has harmed u in some way or the other u avoid tht person
2006-09-28 21:17:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd just like to point out that an axiom is a self evident truth. You mean idiom.
2006-09-29 12:54:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you put your foot in a rattler's nest and got bitten, I think you'd hesitate before you put your foot in a second time, right? So it goes with any position or situation that has been uncomfortable or dangerous for you. You wouldn't put yourself in that situation again any time soon. Or at least if you had any sense you wouldn't.
2006-09-29 02:42:04 · answer #3 · answered by sinned 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
case in aspect... in case you've been in a courting and the girl cheated on you, you'd be two times as careful with her as you've been earlier. once you get damage, your a lot more beneficial carefull the fellow/those who gave thumbs down are so dumb that's unreal, it really is the right answer so do not pass through the thumbs down
2016-10-16 02:48:03 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you hurt me once I am going to think twice about it the next time.
If I get hurt a certain way I will be twice as careful to not get hurt that way again.
Make sense?
2006-09-28 21:14:49 · answer #5 · answered by rswdew 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Similar to another cliche' that President Bush butchered "Fool me once, shame one you. Fool me twice, shame on me." It means you have become wary of mistakes you have made in the past, in an effort not to repeat them.
2006-10-02 10:05:07 · answer #6 · answered by Jake 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means that, when you are hurt, or scorned once by someone, then you will have a hard time trusting that person again.
2006-10-03 07:39:28 · answer #7 · answered by pepperranch04 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means if you do something and it goes badly wrong that you would hesitate if you found yourself in that situation again. Hope that explains it clearly.
2006-09-28 21:20:36 · answer #8 · answered by frances g 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if you have been hurt by something/someone, you are "gun shy' about that person or event in the future, hesitant to trust..
yeah, i know it doesn't make much sense, but that is how it is used.
2006-09-28 21:15:42 · answer #9 · answered by nickipettis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋