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痛定思痛
tòng dìng sī tòng
What 痛定思痛 means
- to think of the pain when the pain is gone (idiom)
- to ponder about a painful experience
The characters in 痛定思痛
- 痛tòngache; pain; sorrow
- 定dìngto fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc)…
- 思sīto think; to consider
- 痛tòngache; pain; sorrow
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