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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「重蹈覆轍」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Tread: step on; overturn: turn over; rut: the mark left by the wheels. Going back to the old path of overturning the car. A metaphor for not learning from lessons and repeating the same old mistakes.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhòng dǎo fù zhé
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jung6 dou6 fuk1 chit3
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