Word information
Simplified重蹈覆辙
Traditional重蹈覆轍
Pinyinchóng dǎo fù zhé
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重蹈覆辙
chóng dǎo fù zhé · lit. to follow in the tracks of an overturned cart (idiom); fig. to follow a path that led to failure in the past; to repeat a disastrous mistake
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