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Dictionary definition: A BURNT child dreads the fire
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A BURNT child dreads the fire
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1250
Proverbs of Hending
in
Anglia
(1881) IV. 199
Brend child fuir fordredeth [is in dread of].
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1400
Romaunt of Rose
l. 1820
‘For evermore gladly,’ as I rede, ‘Brent child of fier hath mych drede.’
1580 Lyly
Euphues & his England
II. 92
A burnt childe dreadeth the fire. ‥Thou mayst happely forsweare thy selfe, but thou shalt neuer delude me.
1777 P. Thicknesse
Journey
I. xviii.
He then observed, that a burnt child dreads the fire;‥that a Jew had lately passed thro' France, who had put off false Bank notes, and ...
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Dictionary definition: ONCE bitten, twice shy
The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs;
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... ... bitten, twice shy The variant once burned , twice shy is particularly common in the US, perhaps influenced by a burnt child dreads the fire . 1853 Surtees Sponge's Sporting Tour xxxvii. Jawleyford had been bit once, and he was not going to ...
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