- to think of the pain when the pain is gone (idiom)
- to ponder about a painful experience
Characters
- 痛 (痛): ache; pain; sorrow; deeply; thoroughly
- 定 (定): to fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc); to congeal; to coagulate; (literary) definitely
- 思 (思): to think; to consider
- 痛 (痛): ache; pain; sorrow; deeply; thoroughly
Resources
- Wiktionary: 痛定思痛
- MDBG: 痛定思痛
- Examples with 痛定思痛 on Tatoeba
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